Re: [SQL] isnull function]

I posted this question a while back and received a response of 'is null'
such as:

select * from try where field is null;

Will give you all entries where the field 'field' does not yet contain a
value.  Works great and I hope will answer your original question.
(Now if only I could find an easy answer for mine :)

--
Colin Dick
On Call Internet Services
cdick@mail.ocis.net


On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Kachun Lee wrote:

> At 03:13 PM 6/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there an isnull function avaliable in postgres, such as:
> >>
> >>   select isnull(dt_field, 'now') ...
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I don't tbink so, but it would be nice.  I think Ingres has it.  It also
> >would not be hard to write as a loadable function.
> >
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>
> I tried, but the following code does not seem to work:
>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "postgres.h"
> #include "libpq-fe.h"
> #include "utils/dt.h"
>
> DateTime * is_null(DateTime *, DateTime *);
>
> DateTime * is_null (DateTime * dt, DateTime * def)
> {
>         return dt ? dt : def;
> }
>
> I searched the doc/maillist, and I could not find how to test an arg for
> NULL value. Should I post this to HACKER?
>