Re: New pgbench functions are misnamed

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I noticed that commit 7e137f846 added functions named max() and min()
> to pgbench's expression syntax.  Unfortunately, these functions have
> zilch to do with what max() and min() do in SQL.  They're actually more
> like the greatest() and least() server-side functions.
>
> While I can't imagine that we'd ever want to implement true aggregates
> in pgbench expressions, it still seems like this is a recipe for
> confusion.  Shouldn't we rename these to greatest() and least()?

Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

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