Re: Unexpected behavior with CASE statement

["Rodrigo De León" <rdeleonp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/3/07, Jimmy Choi <yhjchoi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I expect to get the following result set:
>
> metric_type | result
> ------------+-------
>     0       |   2
>     1       |   3

Try:

SELECT   metric_type
       , SUM(CASE metric_type
               WHEN 0
                 THEN 1 / val
               WHEN 1
                 THEN val
             END) AS RESULT
    FROM metrics
GROUP BY metric_type
ORDER BY metric_type

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