On 5 April 2016 at 05:54, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:34 PM, David Rowley > <david.row...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > I wrote 0002 - 0004, these were reviewed by Tomas. > > 0005 is Haribabu's patch: Reviewed by Tomas and I. > > I think it might be a good idea if these patches made less use of > bytea and exposed the numeric transition values as, say, a 2-element > array of numeric. Maybe this doesn't really matter, but it's not > impossible that these values could be exposed somewhere, and a numeric > is an awful lot more user-friendly than an essentially opaque bytea. > One of the things I eventually want to figure out how to do with this > is distributed aggregation across multiple shards, and I think it > might be better to have the value being sent over the wire be > something like {26.6,435.12} rather than \x1234... > > Thoughts?
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