Conditional
Notice: Some of the examples below are referenced from ClickHouse Documentation but have been adapted and modified to work in ByteHouse.
multiIf
Allows you to write the CASE operator more compactly in the query.
Syntax
multiIf(cond_1, then_1, cond_2, then_2, ..., else)
Arguments:
cond_N
— The condition for the function to returnthen_N
.then_N
— The result of the function when executed.else
— The result of the function if none of the conditions is met. The function accepts2N+1
parameters.
Returned values
The function returns one of the values then_N
or else
, depending on the conditions cond_N
.
Example
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test.functionMultiIf (id UInt8, left Nullable(UInt8), right Nullable(UInt8)) ENGINE=CnchMergeTree ORDER BY id;
INSERT INTO test.functionMultiIf VALUES (1,NULL,4),(2,1,3),(3,2,2),(4,3,1),(5,4,NULL);
SELECT
left,
right,
multiIf(left < right, 'left is smaller', left > right, 'left is greater', left = right, 'Both equal', 'Null value') AS result
FROM test.functionMultiIf
┌─left─┬─right─┬─result──────────┐
│ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ 4 │ Null value │
│ 1 │ 3 │ left is smaller │
│ 2 │ 2 │ Both equal │
│ 3 │ 1 │ left is greater │
│ 4 │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ │ Null value │
└──────┴───────┴─────────────────┘