Re: seeming overflow during avg() of intervals without errors/warnings

From: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: seeming overflow during avg() of intervals without errors/warnings
Date: 2013-05-23 15:12:46
Message-ID: CALd+dcdBPHWsRPecXCEpTD_tyVtFbGsk5aAwy3Jub8v+g3JKYw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Somebody ought to fix that.
>
> A larger question is whether it'd be worth the trouble for interval
> avg() to use some wider internal representation so it could avoid
> the overflow. Given the lack of prior complaints I'm inclined to
> suspect it's not.
>
>
Should I file a formal bug report? Personally, I care not either way it is
fixed, but I never want to get garbage answers.

Thanks for looking into it.

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