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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [SQL] isnull function]
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In response to isnull function  (Kachun Lee <kachun@pathlink.net>)
Responses Re: [SQL] isnull function]  (Kachun Lee <kachun@pathlink.com>)
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> Is there an isnull function avaliable in postgres, such as:
>
>   select isnull(dt_field, 'now') ...
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> Thanks
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>

I don't tbink so, but it would be nice.  I think Ingres has it.  It also
would not be hard to write as a loadable function.

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