Re: example of aggregate function for product

Whit Armstrong escribió:

> Ansis <ansis_no_ AT inbox.lv>13 Jan 2006 16:41:05
> An aggregate multiplication function, an analog of "sum" (the same
> should be defined also for other numeric types):
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION mul2(FLOAT,FLOAT)
> RETURNS FLOAT AS '
> DECLARE
> a ALIAS FOR $1;
> b ALIAS FOR $2;

[...]

> but that example looks pretty different than the ones found in the 8.3
> manual (avg for instance):

The main difference is that the 8.3 docs example piggybacks on C
language functions that you must compile and install separately, whereas
the comment function uses a plpgsql function and is self-contained.
Other than that (and the fact that the second one is for averages not
multiplication), both examples are technically identical ...

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