Re: Using 128-bit integers for sum, avg and statistics aggregates

On 2015-01-27 08:21:57 +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 02:58 AM, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> >On 23/01/15 00:40, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> >>- Renamed some things from int12 to int128, there are still some places
> >>with int16 which I am not sure what to do with.
> >
> >I'd vote for renaming them to int128 too, there is enough C functions
> >that user int16 for 16bit integer that this is going to be confusing
> >otherwise.
> 
> Do you also think the SQL functions should be named numeric_int128_sum,
> numeric_int128_avg, etc?

I'm pretty sure we already decided upthread that the SQL interface is
going to keep usint int4/8 and by extension int16.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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