Altering functions cast - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matt A.
Subject Altering functions cast
Date
Msg-id 20050826215950.38153.qmail@web35205.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Altering functions cast  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
List pgsql-general
We use NULLIF() for adding [1|0|null] according to the
 evalution of nullif('x','') into boolean columns.
Where x is [1|0|null], which if it's an empty string
(x='') then we add NULL cause NULLIF says if '' == ''
then return NULL into boolean.

An example wrapper function for this with an integer
cast:


CREATE FUNCTION nullif_always_int(text) RETURNS
integer AS '
SELECT nullif($1,'''')::int;
' LANGUAGE SQL;


I was hoping I could do something simliar with
booleans if possible?



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