On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:15 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > There surely are use-cases for true rational arithmetic, but I'm > dubious that it belongs in core Postgres. I don't think that enough > of our users would want it to justify expending core-project maintenance > effort on it. So I'd be happier to see this as an out-of-core extension.
As is often the case, I'm a little more positive about including this than Tom, but as is also often the case, I'm somewhat cautious, too. On the one hand, I think it would be cool to have and people would like it. But, On the other hand, I also think we'd only want it if we're convinced that it's a really good implementation and that there's not a competing design which is better, or even equally good. Those things don't seem too clear at this point, so I hope Jeff and Joe keep chatting about it ... and maybe some other people who are knowledgeable about this will chime in, too. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company