Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Henry Drexler's message of mi?? sep 21 12:50:18 -0300 2011:
> > thanks,
> > 
> > so I take it I am not getting those more complex examples (that are
> > apparently beyond my use case), I will take a look at them again.
> 
> Maybe the fix is just to add a simpler example, without altering the
> wording (which seems pretty clear to me as well, but then I already know
> what COALESCE does).

The current example is:

        SELECT COALESCE(description, short_description, '(none)') ...

What would a simpler one look like?

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