Re: Export user visible function to make use of convert_to_scalar

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> When complaining I hadn't read the pghackers thread in which you
>> suggested this, and now that I'm caught up on email I remain
>> unconvinced.  What do you need convert_to_scalar for in order to display
>> the pg_statistic histogram?  You've already got the underlying data.

> Then the charting tool would have to duplicate all the same code that
> convert_to_scalar has to figure out what to do with the data.

How so?  The entries in the histogram are equidistant by definition.

            regards, tom lane