Re: Greatest Common Divisor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Chapman Flack
Subject Re: Greatest Common Divisor
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Msg-id 19a62f6e-267f-609f-9aed-71d1b4e9f6b2@anastigmatix.net
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In response to Re: Greatest Common Divisor  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 1/3/20 2:11 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> and moving things to another schema does not help with that. It does
> potentially help with the namespace pollution issue, but how much of
> an issue is that anyway? Unless you've set up an unusual search_path
> configuration, your own schemas probably precede pg_catalog in your
> search path, besides which it seems unlikely that many people have a
> gcd() function that does anything other than take the greatest common
> divisor.

As seen in this thread though, there can be edge cases of "take the
greatest common divisor" that might not be identically treated in a
thoroughly-reviewed addition to core as in someone's hastily-rolled
local version.

Regards,
-Chap



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