Re: Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg
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Msg-id 200506212014.j5LKE7K24978@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Function's LEAST, GREATEST and DECODE (Oracle vararg  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Oh, and I personally think DECODE is fine, even if it partly duplicates
> > something we already have.  I was just asking to make sure everyone else
> > was OK before I applied it.
>
> I would rather not have a useless variant spelling of CASE ...
> LEAST/GREATEST at least do something that's a bit hard to do otherwise.

OK, I will apply the LEAST/GREATEST parts and see if others can argue
for decode().

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