| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Richard Neill <rn214(at)hermes(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>, Richard Neill <rn214(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4916: wish: more statistical functions (median, percentiles etc) |
| Date: | 2009-07-12 09:51:39 |
| Message-ID: | 4A59B22B.2070107@joeconway.com |
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Joshua Tolley wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:12:22AM +0100, Richard Neill wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply. Sadly, I haven't the time (or expertise) to write
>> this myself. However, the feature would be really useful to have. I'd
>> certainly be willing to make a £200 payment or donation in return.
>
> That's very nice of you to make the offer. Pending someone taking you up on
> it, you might consider your ability to write the functions in some procedural
> language. They would probably be easier to write, and you'd only have to make
> them handle data types you're planning to use them with. For instance, there's
> an example of PL/Perl versions available embedded in the code here:
This stuff is pretty trivial to do with PL/R
Joe
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