| From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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>, 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 18:46:47 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTim24-NmkrqrYmeovgAAqC4fqJsHJ9QY-1cuenFG@mail.gmail.com |
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Hello
2010/10/11 Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>:
> 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.
The problem is in interface. The original patch did it, but I removed
it. We cannot to unsure immutability of some parameters now. Can we
enhance a AGGREGATE to allow some mark like IMMUTABLE parameter and
probably we should to support ANSI syntax:
PERCENTILE_CONT ( expression1 )
WITHIN GROUP ( ORDER BY expression2 [ ASC | DESC ] )
This syntax allows to divide a muttable and immutable parameters.
Regards
Pavel Stehule
>
> --
> greg
>
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