Re: Wrong output for 7.0.3 from NULL fields in CASE statement
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: aa2@bigpond.net.au, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-01T05:56:26Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes: > foobar=# select text(CASE WHEN (cashback = NULL or cashback = 0) THEN '0' ELSE cashback END) from transaction_payments where idnum = 139 and payment_type = 6; > text > ----------------------- > 1.01855797968803e-312 > (1 row) Try not quoting the '0'. For reasons that I don't recall at the moment, 7.0 has a problem coercing unknown-type literals to the proper datatype in CASE expressions. It seems to work OK in 7.1 though. regards, tom lane