Adrian hi, Thanks for the reply can you please show me how to incorporate the below into my below statement ? SELECT a.eventuei AS _eventuei, a.nodeid AS _nodeid, a.ipaddr AS _ipaddr, now() AS _ts FROM events a WHERE eventuei='uei.opennms.org/comns/backup-success-trap' AND (eventcreatetime > now() - interval '10 minutes') Thanks! Kobi On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 07:36 -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On Tuesday 07 December 2010 3:58:46 am kobi.biton wrote: > > hi thanks for the reply I did look at the CASE statement however cannot > > seem to alter the returned row-count ... > > > > CASE WHEN (@@ROW-COUNT = 0) THEN > > > > [what do I write here?] @@ROW-COUNT = 1? > > > > END > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/if-clause-to-an-exiting-statement-t > >p3295519p3295641.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list > > archive at Nabble.com. > > See below: > > test=> SELECT count(*) from bool_test ; > count > ------- > 33 > (1 row) > > test=> SELECT count(*) , > case count(*) when 0 > then 1 > else > count(*) > end > from > bool_test ; > > count | count > -------+------- > 33 | 33 > (1 row) > > test=> SELECT count(*) , > case count(*) when 0 > then 1 > else > count(*) > end > from > bool_test > where > ifd=0; > > count | count > -------+------- > 0 | 1 > (1 row) > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx > -- Kobi Biton Com N S Ltd. Mobile: +972 (54) 8017668 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general