Subject: Re: Greatest Common Divisor
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 21:09:38 +0100
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On 2020-01-03 16:22, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2020-01-02 15:50, Dean Rasheed wrote:
>>> Out of curiosity, what was the original use-case for this?
> 
>> Yeah, I'm wondering, is this useful for any typical analytics or
>> business application?  Otherwise, abstract algebra functionality seems a
>> bit out of scope.
> 
> Nobody complained when we added sinh, cosh, tanh, asinh, acosh, atanh
> last year, so I'm feeling skeptical of claims that gcd should be out
> of scope.

Geometry is generally in scope, though, for Postgres specifically and 
for databases in general.

Abstract algebra is not in scope, so far, and we still haven't been told 
the use case for this.

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