There is no equivalent to the Oracle
‘s DECODE()'Function In
Postgres`. Is there anyone who wrote decode as a Function?
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Answer
There is an equivalent. It’s called a CASE
statement.
There are two forms of CASE:
Simple CASE:
CASE search-expression WHEN expression [, expression [ ... ]] THEN statements [ WHEN expression [, expression [ ... ]] THEN statements ... ] [ ELSE statements ] END CASE;
Searched CASE:
CASE WHEN boolean-expression THEN statements [ WHEN boolean-expression THEN statements ... ] [ ELSE statements ] END CASE;
CASE
statements are easier to read; I prefer these over decode()
in Oracle.