From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Numeric version of factorial() |
Date: | 2003-12-01 21:54:28 |
Message-ID: | 200312012154.hB1LsSn15127@candle.pha.pa.us |
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I had to remove the factorial example from the casting docs because
factorial is now defined only for numeric. Would someone take the
attached example and make a new one with a different operator?
Thanks.
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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Attached is a patch implementing factorial(), returning numeric. Points to
> note:
>
> 1) arttype is numeric. I thought this was the best way of allowing
> arbitarily large factorials, even though factorial(2^63) is a large
> number. Happy to change to integers if this is overkill.
> 2) since we're accepting numeric arguments, the patch tests for floats. If
> a numeric is passed with non-zero decimal portion, an error is raised
> since (from memory) they are undefined.
> 3) I have not removed factorial([int2|int4|int8]), not their operator
> counterparts since I didn't know what people would want done with these.
> 4) I haven't added any documentation but am happy to once I know if people
> want int or numeric arguments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gavin
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