On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:59:21PM -0400, David Gaudine wrote:
> I want to use SELECT to view some records sorted (ordered?) by the
> maximum value of two fields. I tried
>
> SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY MAX(column1,column2)
>
> but there's no such function. How can I do this?
PostgreSQL 8.1 will have GREATEST and LEAST functions so you'll
be able to do this:
SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY GREATEST(column1, column2);
In earlier versions you can easily write your own:
CREATE FUNCTION mygreatest(anyelement, anyelement) RETURNS anyelement AS '
SELECT CASE WHEN $1 > $2 THEN $1 ELSE $2 END;
' LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT;
--
Michael Fuhr
