Re: greatest/least semantics different between oracle and postgres

["Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>]

Hello,

I have not Oracle, so I cannot test it, but PostgreSQL implementation
respect Oracle:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00431.php

Regards
Pavel Stehule

2007/6/30, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>:
> The following is just FYI.
> I was recently doing some stuff with greatest() on oracle (9.2.0.8.0) and
> noticed that it returned null if ANY of the arguments were null. Out of
> curiosity I checked postgres' definition of that function and found that it
> returns null only if ALL of the arguments are null.
>
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