Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Anyway, there's no doubt that we can point to the behavior of MAX/MIN >> as defense for what we made GREATEST/LEAST do, so I'm inclined to leave >> their behavior alone, at least until such time as they're actually >> standardized. But a note in the manual pointing out the difference from >> Oracle seems in order. > Agreed that we are good by following min/max. Not sure about a mention > in the docs that we are different from Oracle helps. Do we mention > other differences? I see us doing that only for PL/Psql. We tend not to mention Oracle by name, but there are various places saying that we do X while "some other databases" do Y. In view of the mysql behavior I think I'd use that same wording here. regards, tom lane
