Re: Replace null values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ian Haywood
Subject Re: Replace null values
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In response to Re: Replace null values  (Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com> wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 11:47 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
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>>> How to convert zero length string to null ?
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>> UPDATE yourtable SET name=NULL WHERE name='';
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> No I don't want to replace it in the table. Just in the query result.
use a CASE construct.
select case name='' then null else name end from table where ......

Ian

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