Re: avg() bug? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Patrik Kudo
Subject Re: avg() bug?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.31.0103051843510.976-100000@tb303.partitur.se
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In response to Re: avg() bug?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thanks Tom!

I'll use sum(a::int4) until 7.1 then.

Regards,
Patrik Kudo

ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
Känns det oklart? Fråga på!

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Patrik Kudo <kudo@partitur.se> writes:
> > 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?
>
> Yes.  This is changed in 7.1 --- sum() and avg() of int values now
> return type 'numeric'.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>


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