Re: [PATCH] Negative Transition Aggregate Functions (WIP)

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> If we're going to disqualify NUMERIC too, we might as well bounce the
>> feature.  Without a fast FLOAT or NUMERIC, you've lost most of the
>> target audience.

> I think the feature is worth it alone if we could improve COUNT(*).

Agreed, count(*) and operations on integers are alone enough to be worth
the trouble.
        regards, tom lane