Re: More aggregate functions?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: More aggregate functions?
Date: 2004-04-07 15:02:26
Message-ID: 10869.1081350146@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com> writes:
> What do people think of adding some more aggregate functions. These are
> the ones that MySQL has and PG doesn't:

> - STD/STDDEV
> - VARIANCE

Have you read the documentation lately?

> - BIT_OR
> - BIT_AND
> - GROUP_CONCAT (for strings, added in MySQL 4.x)

Unless these are doing something I don't see, they should be easily
writable using CREATE AGGREGATE.

regards, tom lane

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