Re: range_agg

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: range_agg
Date: 2019-07-05 16:48:29
Message-ID: cdd809b0869d3bb334e68ed9ebdd1d3f97289338.camel@j-davis.com
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On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 07:58 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> The question is naming - should be this agg function named
> "range_agg", and multi range agg "multirange_agg"? Personally, I have
> not a problem with range_agg, and I have not a problem so it is based
> on union operation. It is true so only result of union can be
> implemented as range simply. When I though about multi range result,
> then there are really large set of possible algorithms how to do some
> operations over two, three values.

Hi Pavel,

Can you explain in more detail? Would an intersection-based aggregate
be useful? If so, and we implement it in the future, what would we call
it?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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