[postgis-devel] ST_ApproxQuantile, should we keep it ?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Wed Aug 30 07:52:00 PDT 2023


I have never heard of it! :)
P

> On Aug 30, 2023, at 7:41 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> While improving the test coverage of upgrades I've stumbled
> upon an ambiguity between two signatures of the ST_ApproxQuantile
> raster function. Passing just a raster and a double as arguments
> to that function results in an error as PostgreSQL does not know
> which of 2 functions you mean to call, and the two functions also
> have different return types.
> 
> Details are here:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5498
> 
> Now, since that function is not documented nor any test exists
> for it, I'm writing this mail to know if anyone is using it or
> sees a need for it, as otherwise maybe we should drop it ?
> 
> --strk;
> 
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