Implementing product-aggregate - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Kohnert
Subject Implementing product-aggregate
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Msg-id 2176491.irdbgypaU6@kohni-mobil
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Responses Re: Implementing product-aggregate
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Hi,

we need a product aggregate and used to implement this as

exp(sum(ln([COLUMN])))

While using the sum of logarithms is working RDBMS-independently, we'd like to switch to a more PostgreSQL native way of doing this and implement an aggregate to be used. Currently the implementation is

create aggregate prod(numeric) (sfunc = numeric_mul, stype = numeric)

This is simply calling the implementation funtion of the *-Operator for the numeric datatype. Since I could not find any documentation of this implementation function, I am wondering, if using a possibly internal function might be a bad idea.

Are there any recommendations on this?

Thanks for any input!

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MfG Jan

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