David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:28:01PM -0700, Nathan Boley wrote:
>> ... They dismiss
>> singular value decomposition and the discrete wavelet transform as
>> being too parametric ( which is silly, IMHO )
> Should we have a separate discussion about eigenvalues? Wavelets?
I think it'd be a short discussion: what will you do with non-numeric
datatypes? We probably don't really want to assume anything stronger
than that the datatype has a total ordering.
regards, tom lane