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On Wednesday 9. December 2009 09.06.12 Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Le mercredi 9 décembre 2009 à 01:52:03, George Silva a écrit :
> > [...]
> > I can't seem to understand why a simples if is not working on the
> > creation of rules.
> > 
> > I tried both ways (am i missing something?):
> > 
> 
> Sure. IF does not exist in SQL, and you can only put SQL statements in a 
rule. 
> Instead, you can call a stored function written in PL/pgsql which supports 
IF 
> structure.

Or you can look up the CASE WHEN ... THEN ... ELSE .. END, construct, which 
works very much like IF / THEN / ELSE: 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-conditional.html>

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