Re: CONCAT returns null - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: CONCAT returns null
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Msg-id 20160228163044.GA4112@tux
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In response to Re: CONCAT returns null  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:

>>
>> NULL concat with a value returns NULL. You can avoid that using
>> COALESCE(value, ''), that returns the value, or, if the value NULL, ''.
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/functions-string.html
> "
> concat(str "any" [, str "any" [, ...] ])     text     Concatenate the text
> representations of all the arguments. NULL arguments are ignored.
> "

you are right, my fault :-(, muddled with the || - operator.


Andreas
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