I wrote:
There is room to argue that the numeric-arithmetic version would be
worth having on the grounds of greater precision or range, but it's a
big chunk of code and the public demand for the functionality has not
exactly been overwhelming.
Comments?
Since no one's even bothered to
Sergey's recent patch for the SQL2003 binary aggregates implements each
of them three times: in float4, float8, and numeric arithmetic. This
seems like vast overkill. The float4 versions certainly ought to go,
as they won't perform noticeably better than float8 and will likely be
subject to