Re: append columns that are null

nobody wrote:
> "Gerwin Philippo" <gerwin(at)vernet(dot)nl> wrote in message
> news:40ec1043$0$559$e4fe514c(at)news(dot)xs4all(dot)nl(dot)(dot)(dot)
>
>>I have function that appends 2 columns, like
>>"new.field1 = new.field2||new.field3",
>>but when field 3 is null, then the entire outcome is null, while I
>>expected just field2, since when I append nothing to field2, I get
>>field2, right?
>>Is this standard behaviour, and if so, is there another append function
>>that I can use that doesn't behave like this?

3 + unknown value = unknown value

its also unknown if 3 is bigger, smaller or equal to an unknown value.

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