From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Window function docs
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:48:27 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:15:58PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I actually think "regular" might be a better choice than "normal" for this
> > purpose, mainly because somebody looking for statistical aggregates might
> > think that "normal" has something to do with normal distributions. So
> > maybe we should leave that one group of uses alone and s/normal/regular/
> > in section 9.20. But in any case it would help to define the term
> > explicitly in both sections.
>
> I don't think adding another defined term in this dense text is going to
> help so I just specified "general-purpose and statistical aggregates"
> where needed; patch attached.
>
> I didn't touch any mention of "normal" in reference to
> pg_aggregate.aggfnoid where normal/"n" has a specific meaning.
Patch applied.
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