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Re: popcount

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2021-01-11T14:50:54Z
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On 2020-12-30 17:41, David Fetter wrote:
>> The input may have more than 2 billion bits set to 1. The biggest possible
>> result should be 8 billion for bytea (1 GB with all bits set to 1).
>> So shouldn't this function return an int8?
> It does now, and thanks for looking at this.

The documentation still reflects the previous int4 return type (in two 
different spellings, too).

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  1. Add bit_count SQL function