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Re: Greatest Common Divisor

Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-01-20T08:03:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 20/01/2020 08:44, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 12:31, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Do we actually need the smallint versions of these functions?
>> Doubt it.  It'd be fairly hard even to call those, since e.g. "42"
>> is an int not a smallint.
>>
> I see this has been marked RFC. I'll take it, 


Thanks!


> and barring objections,
> I'll start by ripping out the smallint code.


No strong objection.

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Vik Fearing

Commits

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