On Jan 18, 2006, at 18:18 , Emil Rachovsky wrote:

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW public.SomeView
  as select d.id,
  if (true) then d.DocNumber endif from
public.Z_Documents as d;

I get the following error :
 syntax error at or near "then" at character 72

Well, one problem is that IF ... ENDIF is the correct syntax. You can use it in PL/pgSQL, but that's a procedural language, and not what you're doing here. You're probably looking for CASE, e.g.,

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW public."SomeView" AS
SELECT d.id
        , CASE WHEN TRUE
                THEN d."DocNumber"
                ELSE something_else
                END as "DocNumber"
FROM public."Z_Documents" as d;

Note you need an ELSE clause: you can't have a variable number of columns in the view (just like you can't have a variable number of columns in a table). As an aside, you need to double-quote identifiers if you want them to be case-sensitive: otherwise they'll be down-cased.

Hope this helps.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com




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