Question

Say I have this query:

SELECT name::text, id::int, pass:bool FROM mytable;

which gives me this view table:

name   id    pass
------------------
A      123    t
B      234    t
C      345    f

How do I tell postgres to give me this instead

name   id    pass
--------------------
A      123   passed
B      234   passed
C      345   failed

I tried the CASE WHEN condition THEN result; but that just gives me another column ‘case’.
(if there’s no easy way for postgres, is there any in psycopg2 ? because I mainly use it to get the data I want)

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

SELECT name::text, id::int, 
CASE WHEN pass = true THEN 'passed' ELSE 'failed' END AS pass 
FROM mytable;