Re: [despammed] sql can i substitute

On Friday 17 December 2004 05:15 pm, Andreas Kretschmer wrote:

> test=# select * from fruit;
>   name  | fruit
> --------+-------
>  Apple  |     1
>  Banana |     2
>  Cherry |     3
> (3 Zeilen)
>
>
> test=# select name, fruit,  case
> test-# when fruit = 1 then 'good'
> test-# when fruit = 2 then 'bad'
> test-# when fruit = 3 then 'rotten' end from fruit;
>   name  | fruit |  case
> --------+-------+--------
>  Apple  |     1 | good
>  Banana |     2 | bad
>  Cherry |     3 | rotten
> (3 Zeilen)

thanks - opened up a whole new world for me. One more thing, the values come 
under the column 'case', can i avoid having the column 'case' and get the 
'good', 'bad' and 'rotten' under the column 'fruit'?

kg