Query giving division by zero error in PostgreSQL

Question

I am trying to run the following query which results me postgres error: division by zero

select 
    request_count,
    response_count, 
    (response_count*100) / (request_count+response_count) AS proportion 
from total_dummy_table; 

How can I avoid and resolve the division by zero error?

Tried to fix using the below query but getting the same result as above

SELECT 
    request_count,
    response_count,
    (response_count*100) / (request_count) AS proportion 
FROM 
    total_dummy_table
ORDER BY 
    (response_count*100) /(CASE request_count WHEN 0 Then NULL ELSE request_count END) DESC NULLS FIRST

Please let me know where am I doing wrong, or how can I fix this. Thanks!

Result expectation:

The query should return me something like below:

Request_count | Response_count | Proportion

1603423       |  585706        | 36.52

Quick note: Table total_dummy_table does not have column name proportion that is the addition to the result which have calculated proportion in it.

Answer 1

select request_count,response_count, 
case 
    when 
    request_count+response_count = 0 then 0 
    else
(response_count*100) / (request_count+response_count) 
end AS proportion 
from total_dummy_table;

Answer 2

use NULLIF

something/NULLIF(column_name,0)

NULLIF(col,val) is shorthand for

CASE WHEN col=val THEN NULL ELSE col