Tom Lane wrote: > 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. OK, I like the generic approach. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
