Dealing with COALESCE-d fields in output ... (no replies)

A lot of the sql that I deal with is in the form of

SELECT project_id,
COALESCE(get_project_flag(project_id, 'BarCode - Scale'), 1.5) AS scale,

In workbench this results in the value of project_id being displayed, and
scale being shown as blue background with BLOB written in white on it.

Is there any method of getting the COALESCEd value to show in the column ?

Thanks.
Mike