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Examples

ROW a=[2, 1]
| EVAL min_a = MV_MIN(a)

a:integer	min_a:integer
[2, 1]	1

It can be used by any column type, including keyword columns. In that case, it picks the first string, comparing their utf-8 representation byte by byte:

ROW a=["foo", "bar"]
| EVAL min_a = MV_MIN(a)

a:keyword	min_a:keyword
["foo", "bar"]	"bar"