Re: Alias "all fields"? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: Alias "all fields"?
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Msg-id 46DFF68C.1060003@wildenhain.de
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In response to Alias "all fields"?  (Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer@grid.unep.ch>)
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Stefan Schwarzer schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> I guess I am demanding too much.... But it would be cool to have some
> kind of alias for "all fields".
>
> What I mean is this here:
>
> Instead of this:
>
>        SELECT * FROM gdp WHERE y1970 NOT NULL AND y1971 NOT NULL AND
> .... y2005 NOT NULL
>
> I would like to have this:
>
>       SELECT * FROM gdp WHERE all-fields NOT NULL
>
> This is, because my tables have different - and a different number of
> fields.
>
> In principal, I actually just want to have the number of fields which
> are NOT NULL...

Well, this seems more a matter of correct normalization.
If you organize your tables to have a column for the year,
you would just not have "empty" years to select. Problem solved.
Last not least you can easily count the existing years and
whatnot...

Regards
Tino

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