Re: Problem with factorial operator - Mailing list pgsql-general

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Factorial work up to 20. After that one gets negative results.
>
> > I changed the docs to do a 20!.
>
> Don't we have a TODO item to replace the existing factorial functions
> with a NUMERIC implementation?

We do, but until then, we should document a factorial that actually
returns a value in the int8 range.  ;-)

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