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Re: coalesce for null AND empty strings



Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> it would be great to have a coalesce2 function which treats empty strings as 
> null values.

I think

 COALESCE(NULLIF(value1, ''), value2)

does what you want. You could wrap that in a new function coalesce2 if
you like.

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