We have min_max but that returns a struct array. At some point we will want compute kernels that we can call in a ProjectNode that will allow us to get at struct array elements, but for now it would be nice to have (hash_)min and max that just give the scalar we want.

Reporter: Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson
Assignee: David Li / @lidavidm

Related issues:

• [R] Bindings for min/max aggregation (is depended upon by)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #11152

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