Re: Select case - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Doug Gorley
Subject Re: Select case
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Msg-id 1035572687.16370.13.camel@h24-69-83-179
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In response to Select case  ("Chad Thompson" <chad@weblinkservices.com>)
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select case field
       when 'Stuff' then 'Junk'
       when 'Crap'  then 'Darn'
       end
from table

That'd ought to do what you want.

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:59, Chad Thompson wrote:
> I want to be able to change the results that are output from a query like so.
>
> select field
> from table
> if field = 'Stuff' then 'Junk'
> elseif field  = 'Crap' then 'Darn'
>
> Since I am not quite sure what to look for, I have been unable to find anything in the docs.  Select case doesnt seem
todo what I want, but maybe I just dont understand. 
>
> Thanks
> Chad
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