Altering functions cast

From: "Matt A(dot)" <survivedsushi(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Altering functions cast
Date: 2005-08-26 21:59:50
Message-ID: 20050826215950.38153.qmail@web35205.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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We use NULLIF() for adding [1|0|null] according to the
evalution of nullif('x','') into boolean columns.
Where x is [1|0|null], which if it's an empty string
(x='') then we add NULL cause NULLIF says if '' == ''
then return NULL into boolean.

An example wrapper function for this with an integer
cast:

CREATE FUNCTION nullif_always_int(text) RETURNS
integer AS '
SELECT nullif($1,'''')::int;
' LANGUAGE SQL;

I was hoping I could do something simliar with
booleans if possible?


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