Re: Defining string to represent null values in select - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: Defining string to represent null values in select
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Msg-id 20081108084416.GA7950@tux
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In response to Defining string to represent null values in select  (Brent Wood <pcreso@yahoo.com>)
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Brent Wood <pcreso@yahoo.com> schrieb:

>
> Hi,
>
> I can specify the text used to represent a null value in output from copy, but I'd like to do something similar is
selectoutput, eg: all NULL values are represented by NA or NaN. 

COALESCE:
test=*# select coalesce(NULL, 'NaN');
 coalesce
----------
 NaN



Andreas
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