On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:53:07PM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > case when ''=extinput then null else extinput::timestamp end I'd tend to use nullif(extinput,'')::timestamp for this sort of thing. It's not going to do anything much different from what you're doing, but may end up evaluating "extinput" less which may be a good thing. > Is there any cleaner functional way that doesn't involve prepared > statement etc... since the whole exercise is caused by an > null-impaired DB API (aka MySQLish). As Tom said, maybe if you could send a larger example it would help. Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general