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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-9402:
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As [~szehon] points out in a comment on HIVE-12082, they actually belong in the
section for mathematical functions.
> Create GREATEST and LEAST udf
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>
> Key: HIVE-9402
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9402
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: UDF
> Reporter: Alexander Pivovarov
> Assignee: Alexander Pivovarov
> Fix For: 1.1.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-9402.1.patch, HIVE-9402.2.patch, HIVE-9402.3.patch,
> HIVE-9402.4.patch, HIVE-9402.4.patch, HIVE-9402.5.patch, HIVE-9402.5.patch,
> HIVE-9402.6.patch, HIVE-9402.7.patch
>
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> GREATEST function returns the greatest value in a list of values
> Signature: T greatest(T v1, T v2, ...)
> all values should be the same type (like in COALESCE)
> LEAST returns the least value in a list of values
> Signature: T least(T v1, T v2, ...)
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