Re: Greatest Common Divisor

On 2020-Jan-03, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:23 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Now, those functions were just exposing libc functionality, so there
> > wasn't a lot of code to write. There might be a good argument that
> > gcd isn't useful enough to justify the amount of code we'd have to
> > add (especially if we allow it to scope-creep into needing to deal
> > with "numeric" calculations). But I'm not on board with just
> > dismissing it as uninteresting.
>
> Yeah. There's always the question with things like this as to whether
> we ought to push certain things into contrib modules that are not
> installed by default to avoid bloating the set of things built into
> the core server. But it's hard to know where to draw the line. There's
> no objective answer to the question of whether gcd() or sinh() is more
> useful to have in core;

The SQL standard's feature T622 requires trigonometric functions, while
it doesn't list gcd() or anything of the sort, so there's that.

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