Re: Concat two fields into one at runtime

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:50 -0500, George Handin wrote:
> Is there a way using built-in PostgreSQL functions to combine two data 
> fields into a single field at runtime when querying data?
> 
> For example, the query now returns:
> 
> id    first    last
> ---   -------  ----------
> 1     Goerge   Handin
> 2     Joe      Rachin
> 
> I'd like it to return:
> 
> id    name
> ---   -------------------
> 1     George Handin
> 2     Joe Rachin
> 
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Try this:

SELECT id, first || || last AS name
FROM table;

-Ken