| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle |
| Date: | 2005-06-24 13:41:32 |
| Message-ID: | 42BC0D8C.5070900@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>[ moving to -hackers for a wider audience ]
>
>Today's issue: should the GREATEST/LEAST functions be strict (return
>null if any input is null) or not (return null only if all inputs are
>null, else return the largest/smallest of the non-null inputs)?
>
>
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My initial reaction was to say "not strict", and since that's apparently
what Oracle does that reinforces it for me.
cheers
andrew
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