Re: Add PRODUCT() aggregate function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Jones
Subject Re: Add PRODUCT() aggregate function
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Msg-id 456004d3-b296-4946-b413-1fdda7476e29@uni-muenster.de
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Hi Jeevan

On 23/06/2026 10:37, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 08:49, Jeevan Chalke
> <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> PRODUCT() returns the product of all non-null input values.  It is defined for
>> int2, int4, int8, float4, float8 and numeric input, and always returns numeric.
> I don't think that you need to define it for all those types. I
> suspect that you could just define it for numeric and float8, and let
> implicit casting do the rest.

+1

I've tested the patch in many different scenarios and all results look
fine -- valgrind also didn't report anything :)

The test coverage is comprehensive! For the sake of completeness I'd add
numeric tests for NaN and Infitinty with positive numeric values in the
set, e.g:

postgres=# WITH j (v) AS (VALUES
('NaN'::numeric),('Infinity'::numeric),(3.14))
SELECT product(v) FROM j;
 product
---------
     NaN
(1 row)

Other than that and the point mentioned by Dean I have nothing to add at
this point.

Thanks for the patch.

Best, Jim



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