Re: greatest/least semantics different between oracle and postgres

>
> We pretty much ignore the spec's concept of non-error completion
> conditions, but it sounds like Oracle tries to support it.
>
> 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.
>
> BTW, it seems that mysql follows Oracle on this:
>
> mysql> select greatest(1,4,8);
> +-----------------+
> | greatest(1,4,8) |
> +-----------------+
> |               8 |
> +-----------------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> select greatest(1,4,null);
> +--------------------+
> | greatest(1,4,null) |
> +--------------------+
> |               NULL |
> +--------------------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> and if you want a laugh:
>
> mysql> select greatest (1,4,8);
> ERROR 1305 (42000): FUNCTION test.greatest does not exist
>
>                         regards, tom lane
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Hello

some notes about it

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12791
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=15610

Regards
Pavel