Re: BUG #4916: wish: more statistical functions (median, percentiles etc) - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: BUG #4916: wish: more statistical functions (median, percentiles etc)
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In response to Re: BUG #4916: wish: more statistical functions (median, percentiles etc)  (Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>)
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Joshua Tolley wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:12:22AM +0100, Richard Neill wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply. Sadly, I haven't the time (or expertise) to write
>> this myself. However, the feature would be really useful to have. I'd
>> certainly be willing to make a £200 payment or donation in return.
>
> That's very nice of you to make the offer. Pending someone taking you up on
> it, you might consider your ability to write the functions in some procedural
> language. They would probably be easier to write, and you'd only have to make
> them handle data types you're planning to use them with. For instance, there's
> an example of PL/Perl versions available embedded in the code here:

This stuff is pretty trivial to do with PL/R

Joe

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