Re: IFNULL -> COALESCE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: IFNULL -> COALESCE
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Msg-id 20020209011111.J14715-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to IFNULL -> COALESCE  (Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>)
Responses Re: IFNULL -> COALESCE  (Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>)
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> Guys, I've recently being going back over code from Ingres and porting
> it over to PostgreSQL. Heavy use was made of the IFNULL function, this
> function simply returns the 2nd argument if the first is
> NULL. Consider the following query:
>
>  SELECT COALESCE(MAX(id), 0) + 1 from test;
>
> can be replaced by the following PostgreSQL query:
>
>  SELECT COALESCE(MAX(id), 0) + 1 from test;

Ummm...did you make a mistake here?  Those statements are identical...

Chris



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