RE: NVL (sql oracle)

If I'm not misremembering what NVL does, the equivalent
is coalesce.

Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Nick Fankhauser wrote:

> > NVL in postgreSQL???
>
> That was also my first thought when looking at Jeff Eckerman's string
> concatenation dilemma. I don't find NVL or anything that remotely resembles
> it anywhere in the docs. Having such a function would cetainly be handy. Can
> anyone clue us in on the process for submitting suggestions to the code
> hackers? (or point out a similar function that I missed...)