| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: wip: functions median and percentile |
| Date: | 2010-08-19 18:17:42 |
| Message-ID: | 23246.1282241862@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:25:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> A name like "arithmetic_median" seems much less likely to get
>> blindsided by future standardization.
> Yep.
OTOH, if Pavel's right that Oracle already has an aggregate named
median(), it seems quite unlikely that the SQL committee would pick
a definition incompatible with Oracle's to standardize on.
regards, tom lane
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