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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Bruce Momjian	41f862ba87	As mentioned above, here is my contrib/tablefunc patch. It includes three functions which exercise the tablefunc API. show_all_settings() - returns the same information as SHOW ALL, but as a query result normal_rand(int numvals, float8 mean, float8 stddev, int seed) - returns a set of normally distributed float8 values - This routine implements Algorithm P (Polar method for normal deviates) from Knuth's _The_Art_of_Computer_Programming_, Volume 2, 3rd ed., pages 122-126. Knuth cites his source as "The polar method", G. E. P. Box, M. E. Muller, and G. Marsaglia, _Annals_Math,_Stat._ 29 (1958), 610-611. crosstabN(text sql) - returns a set of row_name plus N category value columns - crosstab2(), crosstab3(), and crosstab4() are defined for you, but you can create additional crosstab functions per directions in the README. Joe Conway	24 years ago
Bruce Momjian	ad0787b2bd	I've written on like that a while ago: http://webmail.postgresql.org/~petere/dbsize.html The tarball can be rolled into contrib -- now that I think of it I don't know why I never did that. Never imagined this would have anything to do with that TODO item, though. I figured oid2name accomplished that. Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net	24 years ago

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Bruce Momjian

41f862ba87

As mentioned above, here is my contrib/tablefunc patch. It includes

three functions which exercise the tablefunc API.

show_all_settings()
   - returns the same information as SHOW ALL, but as a query result

normal_rand(int numvals, float8 mean, float8 stddev, int seed)
   - returns a set of normally distributed float8 values
   - This routine implements Algorithm P (Polar method for normal
     deviates) from Knuth's _The_Art_of_Computer_Programming_, Volume 2,
     3rd ed., pages 122-126. Knuth cites his source as "The polar
     method", G. E. P. Box, M. E. Muller, and G. Marsaglia,
     _Annals_Math,_Stat._ 29 (1958), 610-611.

crosstabN(text sql)
   - returns a set of row_name plus N category value columns
   - crosstab2(), crosstab3(), and crosstab4() are defined for you,
     but you can create additional crosstab functions per directions
     in the README.

Joe Conway

24 years ago

Bruce Momjian

ad0787b2bd

I've written on like that a while ago:

http://webmail.postgresql.org/~petere/dbsize.html

The tarball can be rolled into contrib -- now that I think of it I don't
know why I never did that.

Never imagined this would have anything to do with that TODO item,
though.
I figured oid2name accomplished that.

Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

24 years ago

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