Re: Statistical Lacunae in Interval type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Statistical Lacunae in Interval type
Date
Msg-id 200407120918.35775.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Statistical Lacunae in Interval type  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter wrote:
> I just ran across this, and was wondering whether it's worth a
> back-patch.

New features are not back-patched.

> The interval type has an aggregate for average (AVG),
> but not one for standard deviation (STDDEV) or variance (VARIANCE).
>
> Is this a bug?

No, it's a missing feature. :-)

> Is there some problem with defining variance over
> intervals?

If all the operations that are used as part of the calculation of stddev 
are available for intervals, then I don't see one.



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