Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar nov 02 15:21:31 -0300 2010: > What concerns me about that is that it tends to push the bits to the > left --- I think the effects of the earlier inputs are going to overflow > out as you incorporate a lot of newer inputs. What you want is a scheme > where every input item affects all the bits of the final result about > equally, and my gut feeling is this doesn't provide that.
Ahh, now I understand what you meant with "rotating" the bits in the original email in this thread. You're not simply shifting. Clever. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
