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From: Feixiong Li <feixiongli@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: How to max() make  null as biggest value?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:33:30 +0800
Message-ID: <2A8BBCA2-814C-4E8D-BCE1-11FA2F8D120E@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi , guys ,
	
I am newbie for sql, I have a problem when using max() function, I  
need get null when there are null in the value list, or return the  
largest value as usual, who can do this?

i.e.  max([1,2,3,4,5]) => 5
max([1,2,3,4,5,null]) => null

thanks in advance!

Feixiong
feixiongli@gmail.com









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