Nice, but I still prefer nvl. Coalesce is hard to pronounce, and even harder to type.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andreas Joseph Krogh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 15:48 An: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Cc: Mario Weilguni Betreff: Re: [HACKERS] bug or feature, || -operator and NULLs On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:15, Mario Weilguni wrote: > >If you want this behaviour you will have to explicitly handle it with > > COALESCE(). > > >regards, > >Lukas > > True. But there's a point where oracle is really better here, they > named "coalesce" "nvl" => a lot easier to type ;-) They actually support COALESCE now and explicit JOINs too. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Developer / Manager gpg public_key: http://dev.officenet.no/~andreak/public_key.asc ------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ OfficeNet AS | The most difficult thing in the world is to | Karenslyst Allé 11 | know how to do a thing and to watch | PO. Box 529 Skøyen | somebody else doing it wrong, without | 0214 Oslo | comment. | NORWAY | | Mobile: +47 909 56 963 | | ------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
