Hello,

PostgreSQL hasn't logical operator XOR. But You can find it in cookbook
http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/view-recipes.adp?section_id=41&format=long

Regards
Pavel



On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Nagib Abi Fadel wrote:

> Is there a XOR logical operator in Postgresql, or a
> function for XOR ??
> 
> I only found in the docs a Binary XOR (#).
> 
> I need to do the following checkup:
> (field1 is NULL XOR field2 is NULL XOR filed3 is NULL)
> 
> i can't right it like this:
> (
> (field1 is NUll or field2 is NUll)
> and (field1 is NUll or field3 is NUll)
> and (field2 is NUll or field3 is NUll)
> )
> 
> But if i have alot of fields :
> field1,field2,...,field5
> ... this will take a hell of a time 
> I can write a function F1 that does the following:
> if a field is NULL it will return 1
> else it will return 0
> 
> then i can do: 
> (F1(field1) # F1(field2) # F1(field3) ...)
> 
> 
> but i just wanted to see if XOR already exists ...
> 
> 
> 
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