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From A. R. Van Hook
Subject or function
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Msg-id 4596A525.9050008@lake-lotawana.mo.us
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Responses Re: or function  (chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>)
Re: or function  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I have been trying to do an 'or' function such that if a field value is 
zero then use 1 as a multiplier:"select sum((1 | i.count) * s.cost) as COST
seems to work ok when the value is 0 but I get the wrong value is 
i.count in not zero
stid | count | tot |   ldate    | pkcnt | status | cost
------+-------+-----+------------+-------+--------+------2995 |    12 |  44 | 12/18/2006 |    32 | Active | 3.60
qs "select sum(i.count * s.cost) from inventory i,stock s, stockkey k 
where i.stid=s.stid and i.status='Active' and s.ctype = k.cd and k.value 
= 'Other' and s.ssp = 'Stock'" sum
-------43.20
qs "select sum((1|i.count) * s.cost) from inventory i,stock s, stockkey k
where i.stid=s.stid and i.status='Active' and s.ctype = k.cd and k.value 
= 'Other' and s.ssp = 'Stock'" sum
-------46.80
43.20 <> 46.80
Thanks


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