OT : MySQL statement question

[tbs]

Hi folks,

well I have googled until my eyes are bleeding but cannot get a
definitive answer on this one ... Maybe someone here can help?

a 'requirements change' was requested from my upstream (them what pays
the checks). In a stored procedure where they can pass in a list if ID's
to identify a result set, they now want to be able to pass NO IDs and
get the list of all records with that field being null. :( 
I am trying to avoid doing this :

IF (bool) THEN
 large SQL Statement
ELSE
 large SQL statement
ENDIF

for obvious reasons, the thought makes me shudder ...

What I was wondering is, can I do this :

select t.a, t.b, t.c, t.d
from table 't'
where
ta. = 'foo'
and t.b = 'bar'
IF (cond) THEN
    AND isNULL(t.c)
ELSE
    AND t.c in(vINPUTLIST)
ENDIF;

or am I just dreaming and it is not possible and I should shoot myself,
the upstream, or get busy copy and pasting ...

thanks for any pointers ...

richard

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