Avoid Division By Zero In PostgreSQL


Answer :

You can use NULLIF function e.g.

something/NULLIF(column_name,0)

If the value of column_name is 0 - result of entire expression will be NULL


Since count() never returns NULL (unlike other aggregate functions), you only have to catch the 0 case (which is the only problematic case anyway):

CASE count(column_name)    WHEN 0 THEN 1    ELSE count(column_name) END

Quoting the manual about aggregate functions:

It should be noted that except for count, these functions return a null value when no rows are selected.


I realize this is an old question, but another solution would be to make use of the greatest function:

greatest( count(column_name), 1 )  -- NULL and 0 are valid argument values

Note: My preference would be to either return a NULL, as in Erwin and Yuriy's answer, or to solve this logically by detecting the value is 0 before the division operation, and returning 0. Otherwise, the data may be misrepresented by using 1.


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