Re: requesting features in PostgreSQL

One request is certainly not sufficient for a new
standard feature. As I see more industries becoming
data savvy, however, I think it's time will come.
Until then....

Simple python scripts are the extent of my coding
experience. As I will be processing 2 to 6 million
records within one query, I guess I should learn some
C.

Once I untar PostgreSQL's source, where can I find the
code for avg()? Will it have it's own file?

Thanks,

Andrew

--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Gould <andrewgould(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I need an aggregate function that calculates
> geometric
> > mean, and can be used in SQL statements the same
> as
> > any other aggregate function such as count(),
> sum()
> > and avg(). Rather than have a custom function,
> I'd
> > like to see it added as a standard PostgreSQL
> feature.
>
> One request does not strike me as sufficient reason
> to make it a
> standard feature. Extensibility is what Postgres is
> all about
> --- so go ahead and write your own.
>
> AFAICS this should take about ten minutes to
> prototype (two simple
> plpgsql or pltcl functions and a user-defined
> aggregate). If you intend
> to process very large volumes of data, it might be
> worth rewriting the
> transition function in C for speed. (You could
> steal the existing
> transition function for avg() as a model.)
>
> regards, tom lane
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