| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: wip: functions median and percentile |
| Date: | 2010-10-11 18:27:13 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTintEz0aPx4pg3c_Y7n6kkfMdgV6gixB_je4fTHf@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> It was pointed out upthread that while median isn't presently
> in the standard, Oracle defines it in terms of percentile_cont(0.5)
> which *is* in the standard.
Uhmm, then why don't we implement that? We could provide median() as a
short-cut but percentile_cont() doesn't sound much harder to implement
than median() and more general.
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greg
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