David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > I guess the answer for the people that complain about slowness could be > that they create their own aggregate function which implements float4pl as > the trans function and float4mi as the negative trans function. They can > call it SUMFASTBUTWRONG() if they like. Perhaps it would be worth a note in > the documents for this patch?
I think it would be an absolutely perfect documentation example to show how to set up such an aggregate (and then point out the risks, of course). > As for numeric, I did start working on this just after I posted the > original patch and before I saw your comment about it. I did end up making > do_numeric_desperse() which was to be the reverse of do_numeric_accum(), > but I got stuck on the equivalent of when do_numeric_accum() > does mul_var(&X, &X, &X2, X.dscale * 2); Ummm ... why doesn't it work to just use numeric_add and numeric_sub, exactly parallel to the float case? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers