Hi Andreas,

On Mon, 21. Sep 2015 at 08:39:19 +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> So how is concat(NULL,fieldname) any better than
> COALESCE(fieldname,'').

That was just to illustrate the difference between foo||bar and
concat(foo,bar).   concat handles NULL as empty string (like in postgres) while
|| returns NULL if either operand is NULL.


Jürgen

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