Re: greatest/least semantics different between oracle and postgres

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Ben" <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL General \(\(EN\)\)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: greatest/least semantics different between oracle and postgres
Date: 2007-06-30 15:51:08
Message-ID: 87sl89e903.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:

>> Fwiw even in the min/max/sum case the spec is moving away from having
>> aggregates ignore NULL values. You now get a warning in Oracle if your
>> aggregate includes any NULL inputs.
>
> How does Oracle's new behavior relate to the standard moving?

Sorry I noticed that editing error only after I sent it. I should have changed
that to say Oracle was moving in that direction. There's nothing of the sort
in SQL2003 that I can find.

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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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