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From Serge Fonville
Subject Re: coalesce function
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In response to coalesce function  (itishree sukla <itishree.sukla@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-conditional.html describes NULLIF, when combined with COALESCE it should answer your request.

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Serge Fonville

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2013/6/20 itishree sukla <itishree.sukla@gmail.com>
Hi All, 

I am using coalesce(firstname,lastname), to get the result if first name is 'NULL' it will give me lastname or either way. I am having data like instead of NULL,  blank null ( i mean something like '' ) for which coalesce is not working, is there any workaround or other function available in postgresql, please do let me know.


Regards, 
Itishree

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