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From Harald Armin Massa
Subject Re: Conditional on Select List
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Msg-id 7be3f35d0805130903r395a4b2ex18aaef1b76cc8bab@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Conditional on Select List  (Fernando <fernando@ggtours.ca>)
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Fernando,

the "IF" function is called

CASE
WHEN condition THEN result
      [WHEN ...]
      [ELSE result]
 END

read about it at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-conditional.html

best wishes,

Harald


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Fernando <fernando@ggtours.ca> wrote:
>
>  Is it possible to do this?
>
>  SELECT IF(COUNT(colname) > 0, TRUE, FALSE) AS colname FROM table;
>
>  What I want is to return a boolean, but when I tried SELECT
> COUNT(colname)::BOOLEAN FROM table; it says it cannot cast bigint to
> boolean.
>
>  Is there such IF function or do I have to create my own.
>
>  Thank you.
>



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