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Re: greatest/least semantics different between oracle and postgres

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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > GREATEST/LEAST aren't in the spec, so there's not much help there.
> >
> > Except ... if they ever do get added to the spec, what do you think
> > the spec will say?  The odds it'd contradict Oracle seem about nil.
> 
> 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?

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