avg() bug? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Patrik Kudo
Subject avg() bug?
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.31.0103051750060.976-100000@tb303.partitur.se
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Hi!

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but it's sure unpleasant (for me).

(pseudocode)
create table t (a int2);

insert into t values (random number); <-- performed many, many times

now the following will return very unpredictable values:

select avg(a) from t;

while the following behaves as I would expect:

select avg(a::int4) from t;

I suppose avg() does a sum()/count() where sum returns a int2,
which will be too small to contain the sum if the table contains
many values?

Is this something I must know as a user, or is it a bug?


Regards,
Patrik Kudo

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