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LEAST
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LEAST() function produces the least value among all the arguments.
SELECT least(2, 3);
create.select(least(2, 3)).fetch();
The result being
+-------+ | least | +-------+ | 2 | +-------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
least(2, 3)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS SWITCH(2 < 3, 2, TRUE, 3) -- ASE, DERBY, INFORMIX, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SYBASE CASE WHEN 2 < 3 THEN 2 ELSE 3 END -- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, -- ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLSERVER, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB least(2, 3) -- FIREBIRD minvalue(2, 3) -- SQLITE min(2, 3)
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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