Here's mine:

CREATE FUNCTION max2 (INTEGER,INTEGER) RETURNS INTEGER
  LANGUAGE SQL AS
  'SELECT CASE WHEN $1 > $2 THEN $1 ELSE $2 END';

This returns:

database=# select max2(1,2);
 max2 
------
    2
(1 row)

database=# select max2(3,1);
 max2 
------
    3
(1 row)


On Friday 17 October 2003 02:13 pm, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote:
> Hello!
>
>    I'm looking for a function to calculate the max value from two numbers,
> something like max2(a,b) with a,b int
>
>    Does anyone have the trick ?
>
>    Thank you in advance..
>
> Rodrigo!
>
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