From: Mike Rylander <miker@n2bb.com>
To: Rodrigo Gesswein <rodri@chilesat.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: new max function
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:32:50 -0400
Message-ID: <200310171732.50292.miker@n2bb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0310171510400.6271@pluton.chilepac.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0310171510400.6271@pluton.chilepac.com>
Here's mine:
CREATE FUNCTION max2 (INTEGER,INTEGER) RETURNS INTEGER
LANGUAGE SQL AS
'SELECT CASE WHEN $1 > $2 THEN $1 ELSE $2 END';
This returns:
database=# select max2(1,2);
max2
------
2
(1 row)
database=# select max2(3,1);
max2
------
3
(1 row)
On Friday 17 October 2003 02:13 pm, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm looking for a function to calculate the max value from two numbers,
> something like max2(a,b) with a,b int
>
> Does anyone have the trick ?
>
> Thank you in advance..
>
> Rodrigo!
>
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