Thank you so much for the reply. I inserted the
function as you said in pgsql. I tried testing it and
got...
PERFECT RESULTS!
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You saved me from suicide.
--- Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Matt A. wrote:
> > Anyone know how I could alter the cast of the
> nullif()
> > function directly to return INT?
> >
> > We use NULLIF() for adding [1|0|null] according to
> the
> > evalution of nullif('x','') into integer columns.
> > Where x is an integer and sometimes a empty
> string,
> > which if it's an empty string (x='') then we add
> NULL
> > cause NULLIF says if '' == '' then return NULL
>
> Just add a wrapper function:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION nullif_always_int(text) RETURNS
> integer AS '
> SELECT nullif($1,'''')::int;
> ' LANGUAGE SQL;
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
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