The old claim is from my commit
d06ebdb8d3425185d7e641d15e45908658a0177d of
2000-07-17, but it seems to have been a plain old thinko; sum(float4) has
been distinct from sum(float8) since Berkeley days. Noted by KaiGai Kohei.
While at it, mention the existence of sum(money), which is also of
embarrassingly ancient vintage.
smallint, int,
bigint, real, double
- precision, numeric, or
- interval
+ precision, numeric,
+ interval, or money>
bigint for smallint or
int arguments, numeric for
- bigint arguments, double precision
- for floating-point arguments, otherwise the same as the
+ bigint arguments, otherwise the same as the
argument data type
sum of expression across all input values