Re: bug or feature, || -operator and NULLs

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith(at)pooteeweet(dot)org>
Cc: Mario Weilguni <mario(dot)weilguni(at)icomedias(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bug or feature, || -operator and NULLs
Date: 2006-10-18 14:10:45
Message-ID: 453635E5.5040004@dunslane.net
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Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Mario Weilguni wrote:
>> Nice, but I still prefer nvl. Coalesce is hard to pronounce, and even
>> harder to type.
>
> amen .. coalesce was invented by a sadistic twit (something which
> people have also called me .. so it goes).

Perhaps people are trying to pronounce it wrongly. According to m-w, the
right ways is:

Pronunciation: "kO-&-'les

or more informally "koh a less".

Is that really so hard?

cheers

andrew

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