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

[Regina Obe]

Yah Sandro has created a new toy to expose all those things you never heard
of.
Watch out, many more coming I fear.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel <postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of
> Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 10:52 AM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] ST_ApproxQuantile, should we keep it ?
> 
> 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;
> >
> >  Libre GIS consultant/developer
> >  https://strk.kbt.io/services.html
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