From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Stefan Bill <sjb26@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: LEAST and GREATEST functions?
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:04:26 -0700
Message-ID: <200307011704.26768.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F01ED9F.3060704@joeconway.com>
References: <20030630201057.14507.qmail@web13905.mail.yahoo.com>
<87d6gu2otf.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv>
<3F01ED9F.3060704@joeconway.com>
Joe,
> create or replace function greatest(anyelement, anyelement) returns
> anyelement as 'select case when $1 > $2 then $1 else $2 end' language
> 'sql';
Way cool. I'd have to imagine that it would blow up if you did this, though:
select greatest ( 512, now() );
With an "Operator is not defined" error, hey?
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com, mail@joeconway.com, gsstark@mit.edu, sjb26@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: LEAST and GREATEST functions?
In-Reply-To: <200307011704.26768.josh@agliodbs.com>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox