Re: IF function? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Fetter
Subject Re: IF function?
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Msg-id 20070501055731.GC28003@fetter.org
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In response to IF function?  (novnov <novnovice@gmail.com>)
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Re: IF function?
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:51:36PM -0700, novnov wrote:
>
> Does postgresql have a built in IF function that allows one to eval a
> condition and return one or another value? Like:
>
> IIF(mybooleanfield = true, "It's true", "It's not true")

It has CASE, as in

CASE foo WHEN true THEN 'It''s true' ELSE 'It''s not true' END;

Cheers,
D
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