| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> |
| Cc: | Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Using 128-bit integers for sum, avg and statistics aggregates |
| Date: | 2015-01-27 08:05:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20150127080517.GH4655@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2015-01-27 08:21:57 +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 02:58 AM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> >On 23/01/15 00:40, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> >>- Renamed some things from int12 to int128, there are still some places
> >>with int16 which I am not sure what to do with.
> >
> >I'd vote for renaming them to int128 too, there is enough C functions
> >that user int16 for 16bit integer that this is going to be confusing
> >otherwise.
>
> Do you also think the SQL functions should be named numeric_int128_sum,
> numeric_int128_avg, etc?
I'm pretty sure we already decided upthread that the SQL interface is
going to keep usint int4/8 and by extension int16.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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