postgresql/src/test/regress/sql/misc_functions.sql
Tom Lane 6819514fca Add num_nulls() and num_nonnulls() to count NULL arguments.
An example use-case is "CHECK(num_nonnulls(a,b,c) = 1)" to assert that
exactly one of a,b,c isn't NULL.  The functions are variadic, so they
can also be pressed into service to count the number of null or nonnull
elements in an array.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2016-02-04 23:03:37 -05:00

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--
-- num_nulls()
--
SELECT num_nonnulls(NULL);
SELECT num_nonnulls('1');
SELECT num_nonnulls(NULL::text);
SELECT num_nonnulls(NULL::text, NULL::int);
SELECT num_nonnulls(1, 2, NULL::text, NULL::point, '', int8 '9', 1.0 / NULL);
SELECT num_nonnulls(VARIADIC '{1,2,NULL,3}'::int[]);
SELECT num_nonnulls(VARIADIC '{"1","2","3","4"}'::text[]);
SELECT num_nonnulls(VARIADIC ARRAY(SELECT CASE WHEN i <> 40 THEN i END FROM generate_series(1, 100) i));
SELECT num_nulls(NULL);
SELECT num_nulls('1');
SELECT num_nulls(NULL::text);
SELECT num_nulls(NULL::text, NULL::int);
SELECT num_nulls(1, 2, NULL::text, NULL::point, '', int8 '9', 1.0 / NULL);
SELECT num_nulls(VARIADIC '{1,2,NULL,3}'::int[]);
SELECT num_nulls(VARIADIC '{"1","2","3","4"}'::text[]);
SELECT num_nulls(VARIADIC ARRAY(SELECT CASE WHEN i <> 40 THEN i END FROM generate_series(1, 100) i));
-- special cases
SELECT num_nonnulls(VARIADIC NULL::text[]);
SELECT num_nonnulls(VARIADIC '{}'::int[]);
SELECT num_nulls(VARIADIC NULL::text[]);
SELECT num_nulls(VARIADIC '{}'::int[]);
-- should fail, one or more arguments is required
SELECT num_nonnulls();
SELECT num_nulls();