Re: NVL vs COALESCE

On Nov 24, 2005, at 21:21 , Marcus Engene wrote:

> When we're having an alias discussion, I'd really like to see NVL  
> in postgres. Not because of porting from oracle as much as just  
> spelling that without the reference manual is completely impossible.

NVL: what a very unfortunate spelling. (NULL VaLue? NULL Valued  
Logic? Named Very Loosely? Someone help me here :) ) AFAICT, COALESCE  
is SQL standard, while NVL isn't. I think an index entry might be a  
good idea.

Michael Glaesemann
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