On 9/25/14, 8:38 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> That's my whole reason for not wanting to adopt Fabien's approach in
> the first place: I was cool with exposing C's modulo operator, but any
> other modulo semantics seem like they should be built up from
> general-purpose primitives.
Maybe; I don't quite understand his requirements well enough yet to know
if that's possible, or if it's easier to give him a full special
operator of his own. But since what you did makes that easier, too,
forward progress regardless.
> Anyway, I think the first thing is that somebody needs to spend some
> time testing, polishing, and documenting this patch, before we start
> adding to it. I'm hoping someone else will volunteer - other tasks
> beckon.
I bouncing it to here for you, and I expect to help with those parts
presumably in addition to Fabien's help:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1581
