RE: NVL (sql oracle) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject RE: NVL (sql oracle)
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0011090942240.43863-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to RE: NVL (sql oracle)  ("Nick Fankhauser" <nickf@ontko.com>)
Responses RE: Appending null produces null? AND RE: [GENERAL] NVL (sql oracle)  ("Nick Fankhauser" <nickf@ontko.com>)
RE: NVL (sql oracle)  ("Edward Q. Bridges" <ed.bridges@buzznik.com>)
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If I'm not misremembering what NVL does, the equivalent
is coalesce.

Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Nick Fankhauser wrote:

> > NVL in postgreSQL???
>
> That was also my first thought when looking at Jeff Eckerman's string
> concatenation dilemma. I don't find NVL or anything that remotely resembles
> it anywhere in the docs. Having such a function would cetainly be handy. Can
> anyone clue us in on the process for submitting suggestions to the code
> hackers? (or point out a similar function that I missed...)


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