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

On 01/27/2015 09:05 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> 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.

Excellent, then I will leave my latest patch as-is and let the reviewer 
say what he thinks.

-- 
Andreas Karlsson