Re: weird(to me) request - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Adam Wieckowski
Subject Re: weird(to me) request
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In response to weird(to me) request  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
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Użytkownik Larry Rosenman napisał:

> I have the following rows (in addition to others):
>
> acct_num text,
> master_acct_num text,
>
>
> These are in the same table.
>
> What I want to enforce is that if the master_acct_num field is NOT
> NULL (it can be NULL, and
> that's fine), that the value appears in some row as acct_num.
> acct_num has a unique index on it, so that's fine.
>
> I'm not sure how to do this....
>
> Thanks!
>
> LER
>
>
select   case       when master_acct_num is null           then acct_num       else master_acct_num   end   from table;

did you mained somethink like this ?

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