Re: wip: functions median and percentile - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: wip: functions median and percentile
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Msg-id 23246.1282241862@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: wip: functions median and percentile  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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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


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