From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net>
Cc: emilu@encs.concordia.ca
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Get the max(value1, value2, value3) from a table
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:43:27 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10801071443g3c91a29sd27ce5bdf6c4652b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1199745537.5877.9.camel@godzilla.local.scalefeather.com>
References: <4782A1B2.5050804@encs.concordia.ca>
<1199745537.5877.9.camel@godzilla.local.scalefeather.com>
On Jan 7, 2008 4:38 PM, Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:03 -0500, Emi Lu wrote:
> > select ?max?(col1, col2, col3) as result;
> > will return
> >
> > result
> > -------
> > 5
> > 8
> > 12
> >
> > (3 rows)
>
> 8.1 (I believe?) introduced GREATEST(), which does precisely what you're
> looking for.
How would greatest give him three rows like that? Maybe I'm
misunderstanding what the OP was asking for...
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