Re: New pgbench functions are misnamed

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От Tom Lane
Тема Re: New pgbench functions are misnamed
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Ответ на Re: New pgbench functions are misnamed  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

The vote seems to be 2 to 1 in favor, so I'll go do this.
        regards, tom lane



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