On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:43:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:28:01PM -0700, Nathan Boley wrote: > >> ... They dismiss singular value decomposition and the discrete > >> wavelet transform as being too parametric ( which is silly, IMHO > >> ) > > > Should we have a separate discussion about eigenvalues? Wavelets? > > I think it'd be a short discussion: what will you do with > non-numeric datatypes? We probably don't really want to assume > anything stronger than that the datatype has a total ordering.
That sounds about like the discussion we needed unless we later decide we need to do something special for approximations of R^n :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
