[jira] Commented: (DERBY-131) AVG precision is INTEGER instead of DOUBLE

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Rainer Gemulla commented on DERBY-131:
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Maybe you are right. I quickly checked the AVG() function in commercial 
database systems. IBM DB2 returns an integer (as Derby), while Oracle returns a 
double.  Therefore, maybe it's best to leave it as it is. But, most probably, 
users will not be aware of this behaviour and therefore they may not get the 
results they expected.

> AVG precision is INTEGER instead of DOUBLE
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>          Key: DERBY-131
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-131
>      Project: Derby
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: SQL
>     Versions: 10.0.2.1
>     Reporter: Rainer Gemulla

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> The AVG aggregator returns an INTEGER value, if the data tyoe of the 
> respective attribute is INTEGER. This is wrong, because the average of a set 
> of integers is not always an integer, too.

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