Andrew Dunstan schrieb am 2015-01-21:
> On 01/21/2015 11:21 AM, Arne Scheffer wrote: > >Why is it a bad thing to call the column "stddev_samp" analog to the > >aggregate function or make a note in the documentation, that the > >sample stddev is used to compute the solution? > I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill, frankly. These > stats are not intended as anything other than a pretty indication of > the > shape, to see if they are significantly influenced by outliers. For > any > significantly large sample size the difference will be negligible. You're right, I maybe exaggerated the statistics part a bit. I wanted to help, because the patch is of interest for us. I will try to keep focus in the future. > But I will add a note to the documentation, that seems reasonable. *happy* Thx Arne -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
