> On Feb 22, 2020, at 13:05, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2/22/20 1:02 PM, stan wrote: >> I have a case where if a value does not exist, I am going to use a default, >> which is easy with coalesce. But I would like to warn the user that a >> default has been supplied. The default value is reasonable, and could >> actually come from the source table, so I can't just check the value. >> I'd like to do a raise NOTICE, if the default portion of the coalesce fires. >> Anyone have a good way to accomplish this? > > No. You can, of course, create a PL/pgSQL function and use that as the default. -- -- Christophe Pettus xof@xxxxxxxxxxxx