From: | "Brent Wood" <b(dot)wood(at)niwa(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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To: | <spluque(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: concatenating with NULLs |
Date: | 2011-04-25 22:32:59 |
Message-ID: | 4DB69F5B0200007B0003B365@gwia.niwa.co.nz |
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Hi Seb,
Use CASE to change nulls to empty strings (or a placeholder) as below.
See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-conditional.html
if you want a placeholder in the result to indicate the presence of a null, try the second SQL:
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test=# select (case when 'a' isnull then '' else 'a' end) || (case when 'b' isnull then '' else 'b' end) || (case when NULL is null then '' end);
?column?
----------
ab
(1 row)
test=# select (case when 'a' isnull then '_' else 'a' end) || (case when 'b' isnull then '_' else 'b' end) || (case when NULL is null then '_' end);
?column?
----------
ab_
(1 row)
test=#
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HTH,
Brent Wood
Brent Wood
DBA/GIS consultant
NIWA, Wellington
New Zealand
>>> Seb 04/26/11 10:21 AM >>>
Hi,
A query such as:
SELECT 'a' || 'b' || NULL;
returns a NULL. How can I ensure I get 'ab' in the result? I'm trying
to concatenate columns and one of them might have NULL values, which I
simply want to ignore.
Cheers,
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Seb
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