Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> Why do these discussions always end in academic arguments over whats more
> logical then not? From a *user's* point of view I really would like it to
> treat the NULL operand of || as '', and obviously many other (at least
> Oracle) users tend to agree with me on that.
So coalesce the column to the empty string if that's what you want:
select coalesce(NULL, '') || 'fisk'
will get you 'fisk'.
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