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

Nice, but I still prefer nvl. Coalesce is hard to pronounce, and even harder to type.

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Von: Andreas Joseph Krogh [mailto:andreak(at)officenet(dot)no]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 15:48
An: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Mario Weilguni
Betreff: Re: [HACKERS] bug or feature, || -operator and NULLs

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:15, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> >If you want this behaviour you will have to explicitly handle it with
>
> COALESCE().
>
> >regards,
> >Lukas
>
> True. But there's a point where oracle is really better here, they
> named "coalesce" "nvl" => a lot easier to type ;-)

They actually support COALESCE now and explicit JOINs too.

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