Re: Conditional on Select List

Fernando,

the "IF" function is called

CASE
WHEN condition THEN result
[WHEN ...]
[ELSE result]
END

read about it at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-conditional.html

best wishes,

Harald

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Fernando <fernando(at)ggtours(dot)ca> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to do this?
>
> SELECT IF(COUNT(colname) > 0, TRUE, FALSE) AS colname FROM table;
>
> What I want is to return a boolean, but when I tried SELECT
> COUNT(colname)::BOOLEAN FROM table; it says it cannot cast bigint to
> boolean.
>
> Is there such IF function or do I have to create my own.
>
> Thank you.
>

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