On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 16:21:57 -0700,
felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:14:43PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote:
> > I believe based on semi-recent posts that MIN and MAX are now treated
> > as special cases in 8.1, and are synonymous with select id order by id
> > desc limit 1 etc..
>
> Aha! I looked it up in the release notes, you are right. I had never
> thought they would not be special cased.
They really aren't being special cased in 8.1. There is a new way of handling
them in a general way to could be used by other functions with similar
properties.