David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:25:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> A name like "arithmetic_median" seems much less likely to get
>> blindsided by future standardization.
> Yep.
OTOH, if Pavel's right that Oracle already has an aggregate named
median(), it seems quite unlikely that the SQL committee would pick
a definition incompatible with Oracle's to standardize on.
regards, tom lane