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Re: Greatest Common Divisor

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

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From: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-01-07T11:21:30Z
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Do we actually need the smallint versions of these functions?

I would have thought that automatic casting would take care of any
cases that need smallints, and I can't believe that there's any
performance benefit to be had that's worth maintaining the extra code.

Regards,
Dean

Commits

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