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No built-in shorthand for null-safe addition in PostgreSQL

2ce273a3-29b4-40c6-8908-8396eacc1a87

No built-in shorthand for null-safe addition in PostgreSQL

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PostgreSQL has no built-in function like least() for null-safe arithmetic addition

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Query Optimization

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Custom Utilities

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Other than `coalesce(col1, 0) + coalesce(col2, 0)` — do null safe addition. Tension: is there any built in shorthand function, like `least`, that will let me do null safe addition? Outcome: There is nothing built in, but you can create your own:.

FIXED_BYSolution

the `||` string concatenation operator is omitted — between strings separated by newlines. Tension: Can the `||` operator be safely omitted between strings separated by newlines, or might this behavior be removed in a future release of PostgreSQL? Outcome: Two string constants that are only separated by whitespace with at least one newline are concatenated.

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