Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Aside from the apparent discrepancy between the documentation and the
>> actual behavior, is there an actual use case where this is a problem?
> No, I don't think so, and I am reluctant to adjust the documentation to
> say "or similar".
The documentation is correct as it stands: max(text) returns text.
Adriaan's complaint about max(varchar) is off base because there is
no such function.
regards, tom lane