Re: Aggregates with NaN values

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:01 -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> I am happy to see NaN and infinity handled in input.  I would now like
> to compute aggregates (avg, min, max, etc) on columns with NaN values
> in them.  The standard behavior (it appears) is to have the aggregate
> return NaN if the data contain one-or-more NaN values.  I am used to
> using coalesce with NULL values, but that doesn't work with NaN.  I
> can deal with these using CASE statuement to assign a value, but is
> there a standard way of dealing with the NaN (or Infinity, for that
> matter) cases to get a behvavior where they are "ignored" by an
> aggregate?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 

Have you considered using a where clause?

-Mark