Fix (mis)information about NULLIF() SQL function.
authorThomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:20:20 +0000 (05:20 +0000)
committerThomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:20:20 +0000 (05:20 +0000)
Thanks to Tom Lane for pointing it out.

doc/src/sgml/func.sgml

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          class="parameter">c2</replaceable> + 5, 0) </entry>
        </row>
        <row>
-       <entry> IFNULL(<replaceable class="parameter">input</replaceable>,<replaceable class="parameter">non-NULL substitute</replaceable>) </entry>
-       <entry> non-NULL </entry>
-       <entry> return second argument if first is NULL </entry>
-       <entry> IFNULL(<replaceable class="parameter">c1</replaceable>, 'N/A')</entry>
+       <entry> NULLIF(<replaceable class="parameter">input</replaceable>,<replaceable class="parameter">value</replaceable>) </entry>
+       <entry> <replaceable class="parameter">input</replaceable> or NULL </entry>
+       <entry> return NULL if <replaceable class="parameter">input</replaceable> = <replaceable class="parameter">value</replaceable> </entry>
+       <entry> NULLIF(<replaceable class="parameter">c1</replaceable>, 'N/A')</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
        <entry> CASE WHEN <replaceable class="parameter">expr</replaceable> THEN <replaceable class="parameter">expr</replaceable> [...] ELSE <replaceable class="parameter">expr</replaceable> END </entry>