Excluding null return values from functions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jason Armstrong
Subject Excluding null return values from functions
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Msg-id f51cd3b20911250359r6365e12kbeaf90dca115c957@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Excluding null return values from functions  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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How do I give a condition on the return value of a function (for
example plperl)?

I have a perl search function that returns either a bigint, or undef
if nothing is found. I want to exclude the undef/null return values
from my select statement, something like:

sql> select search(data, 'field', 'value') as result from mydata where
result is not null;

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Jason Armstrong

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