Sergey E. Koposov wrote: > I think since we are supporting the numeric type as a special > high-precision type, Postgres must have the high-precision > versions of all computational functions. Just my opinion.
Another way to look at it is whether you want to have accurate computations (numeric) or approximate computations (float). I'm not a statistician, so I don't know what most of these functions are used for. From a mathematician's point of view, however, some of these functions normally produce irrational numbers anyway, so it seems unlikely that numeric will be useful. But looking at the definition of, say, regr_avgx(Y, X), if all the input values are integers, it might be useful if I could get an exact integer or rational number as output, instead of a float, that is. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
