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Re: greatest/least semantics different between oracle and postgres

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On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

Hmm ... I fear Oracle's behavior is more correct, because if any
argument is null (ie, unknown), then who can say what the greatest or
least value is?  It's unknown (ie, null).  But I suspect our behavior
is more useful.  Comments?

I agree with you. I don't know what the spec says, but it seems clear Oracle is doing the proper thing and Postgres is doing the useful thing.


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