Re: Largest & Smallest Functions

From: Ken Tanzer <ken(dot)tanzer(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Largest & Smallest Functions
Date: 2018-11-08 16:53:19
Message-ID: CAD3a31XqSmCk0nGy=j6dq62eGzDc0ztw-0BR+s2OmZ1oADr5+w@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:01 AM Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> postgres=# select smallest(VARIADIC ARRAY[1,2,3]);
>>> ┌──────────┐
>>> │ smallest │
>>> ╞══════════╡
>>> │ 1 │
>>> └──────────┘
>>> (1 row)
>>>
>>>
>> That's very helpful and good to know. It's too bad that doesn't work with
>> LEAST/GREATEST, which would eliminate the need for extra functions.
>>
>
> I sent a patch to pgsql-hackares that allows VARIADIC argument for
> LEAST/GREATEST
>
>
That's great! Thanks for doing that!

Cheers,
Ken

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