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Re: how to return field based on field= NULL or not

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Hi,

Thank you for your help.

What I want to dos is as follows:

SELECT COALESCE(fieldA::text,fieldB||fieldC||fieldD) from ring where group_id = 1

if fieldB is NULL, i will want it to return fieldC|| fieldD
if fieldB and fieldC is null, I want it to return fieldD.

Basically, fieldD is always going to have data, but fieldB and fieldC can be NULL.

How can I revise the query to meet that purpose?

Thanks,
JB


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Wojtek <foo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I assume  one field will always be NULL and one will always has data in it.

select coalesce(fieldA, fieldB) from table

Regards,
foo


Juan Backson wrote:
Hi,

In my table, I have fieldA and fieldB.  At any point in time, only one of these fields can have data in it.  The other is NULL.

Instead of "select fieldA, fieldB from table", I want it to return either fieldA or fieldB depends on whether it is NULL or not.

The reason is because I want to use "select array_to_string(array_accum(field A or field B) ,',') from table.

Is it possible to do it that way?

Thanks,
JB



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