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, SQLSERVER, SYBASE
CASE WHEN 2 < 3 THEN 2 ELSE 3 END

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, CUBRID, DB2, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, IGNITE, INGRES, MARIADB, MEMSQL, 
-- MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, TERADATA, VERTICA
least(2, 3)

-- FIREBIRD
minvalue(2, 3)

-- SQLITE
min(2, 3)

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141)

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : Numeric functions : LEAST

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