Re: Simplifying width_bucket_numeric()

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 at 13:43, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > SELECT hash_array(array_agg(width_bucket(op, b1, b2, c))) FROM t;
> > -- Result not changed by patch
>
> Same hash_array on all my three machines:
>
> > SELECT sum(width_bucket(op, b1, b2, c)) FROM t;
> > Time: 3658.962 ms (00:03.659) -- HEAD
> > Time: 3089.946 ms (00:03.090) -- with patch
>
> Significant improvement on all my three machines:
>

Thanks for testing. I have committed this now.

(I also realised that the "reversed_bounds" code was unnecessary,
since the only effect was to negate both inputs to div_var(), so the
signs cancel out.)

Regards,
Dean