Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I think that's more or less the argument Konstantin is in fact making. > Whether it's a good argument or a thin one is a value judgement. > Personally, I find it somewhere in the middle: I think the way it > works now is reasonable, and I think what he wants would have been > reasonable as well. However, I find it hard to believe it would be > worth changing now on backward compatibility grounds.
I agree with that conclusion. It might have been reasonable to change it fifteen years ago when we changed the integer sum() implementations, but I think doing so now would make more people unhappy than it would make happy; or at least, there's little reason to think the reverse is true. 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