| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca>, "PostgreSQL General Help (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with factorial operator |
| Date: | 2002-04-18 14:29:31 |
| Message-ID: | 200204181429.g3IETV803500@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> Factorial work up to 20. After that one gets negative results.
>
> > I changed the docs to do a 20!.
>
> Don't we have a TODO item to replace the existing factorial functions
> with a NUMERIC implementation?
We do, but until then, we should document a factorial that actually
returns a value in the int8 range. ;-)
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