Alias "all fields"?

Hmm

>        SELECT * FROM gdp WHERE y1970 NOT NULL AND y1971 NOT NULL
> AND .... y2005 NOT NULL

It sounds like a bad table design,
because i think you need an field "f_year" and "value_of_f_year" then
there would be entries like
f_year;value_of_f_year
1970 'NULL'
1970 dfgsd
1971 'NULL'
1971 ....

where f_year IS NOT NULL and value_of_f_year IS NOT NULL

Greetings,

-Franz

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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von Stefan Schwarzer
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 6. September 2007 13:43
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Betreff: [SPAM] [GENERAL] Alias "all fields"?


Hi there,

I guess I am demanding too much.... But it would be cool to have some
kind of alias for "all fields".

What I mean is this here:

Instead of this:

        SELECT * FROM gdp WHERE y1970 NOT NULL AND y1971 NOT NULL
AND .... y2005 NOT NULL

I would like to have this:

       SELECT * FROM gdp WHERE all-fields NOT NULL

This is, because my tables have different - and a different number of
fields.

In principal, I actually just want to have the number of fields which
are NOT NULL...

Thanks for any advice.

Stef


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