From 9d23d7cdafb3540aa2de9310c7f1afee87dfc2f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:47:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Explain COALESCE example in the docs. --- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml index 0b6a109432e..2f307c2b121 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml @@ -10015,6 +10015,8 @@ SELECT ... WHERE CASE WHEN x <> 0 THEN y/x > 1.5 ELSE false END; <programlisting> SELECT COALESCE(description, short_description, '(none)') ... </programlisting> + This returns <varname>description</> if it is not null, or + <varname>short_description</> if it is not null, or <literal>(none)</>. </para> <para> -- GitLab