Re: Conactenating text with null values

SELECT COALESCE(s_house,'') || COALESCE(s_post_dir,'') || COALESCE(s_street,'') || COALESCE(s_suffix,'') FROM parcels WHERE s_pin = '1201703303520';

Gregory S. Williamson schrieb:
> This is postgres 7.4 on a linux box ...
>
> I have driven myself to distraction trying to what ought to be easy.
>
> I have a table with house number, street direction, street name and street suffix as 4 columns. I want to paste them together as one text string for use by another application.
>
> SELECT s_house,s_post_dir,s_street,s_suffix FROM parcels WHERE s_pin = '1201703303520';
> s_house | s_post_dir | s_street | s_suffix
> ---------+------------+----------------+----------
> 34643 | | FIG TREE WOODS |
>
> So to get "34643 FIG TREE WOODS" what do I do ?
>
> SELECT s_house || ' ' || s_post_dir || ' ' || s_street || ' ' || s_suffix FROM parcels WHERE s_pin = '1201703303520';
> ?column?
> ----------
>
> (1 row)
>
> I have tried all manner of COALESCE and various trickeries. Nothing works. In Informix this works exactly as I think it should. Is Informix totally whack, or what ?
>
> I guess I will have to code a perl script to do this seemingly straightforward operation. Any suggestions as to what i am missing (and I've been back and forth through the manual) would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Williamson
> DBA (hah!)
> GlobeXplorer LLC
>
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