Re: Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, neilc(at)samurai(dot)com, david(at)fetter(dot)org
Subject: Re: Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg
Date: 2005-06-21 19:15:20
Message-ID: 15295.1119381320@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Oh, and I personally think DECODE is fine, even if it partly duplicates
> something we already have. I was just asking to make sure everyone else
> was OK before I applied it.

I would rather not have a useless variant spelling of CASE ...
LEAST/GREATEST at least do something that's a bit hard to do otherwise.

regards, tom lane

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