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Re: Greatest Common Divisor

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-01-02T14:57:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Greetings,

* Dean Rasheed (dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com) wrote:
> I'm not objecting to adding it, I'm just curious. In fact, I think
> that if we do add this, then we should probably add lcm() at the same
> time, since handling its overflow cases is sufficiently non-trivial to
> justify not requiring users to have to implement it themselves.

I tend to agree with this.

Thanks,

Stephen

Commits

  1. Add functions gcd() and lcm() for integer and numeric types.