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<p>SQL functions for carrying out routine tasks.
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<tr><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">text&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a9ce7ffa76acc8a0638e9bc48be99f36a">version</a> ()</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Return MADlib build information. <a href="#a9ce7ffa76acc8a0638e9bc48be99f36a"></a><br/></td></tr>
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void&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a76cfdbed8a6782f37f50710d855434bd">assert</a> (boolean condition, varchar msg)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Raise an exception if the given condition is not satisfied. <br/></td></tr>
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float8&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a4d49e00b4dd6059f61ffb9fdc0a696f7">relative_error</a> (float8 approx, float8 value)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Compute the relative error of an approximate value. <br/></td></tr>
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float8&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a26a54368fbf2460323cacf95db76fd2f">relative_error</a> (float8[] approx, float8[] value)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Compute the relative error (w.r.t. the 2-norm) of an apprixmate vector. <br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">boolean&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#aa90ffaebb43a5cbcb5c48281cbadd3b0">check_if_raises_error</a> (text sql)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Check if a SQL statement raises an error. <a href="#aa90ffaebb43a5cbcb5c48281cbadd3b0"></a><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">boolean&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a48bed63cab78a5446fa4c122eaae3a40">isnan</a> (float8 number)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Check if a floating-point number is NaN (not a number) <a href="#a48bed63cab78a5446fa4c122eaae3a40"></a><br/></td></tr>
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void&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a56501b6f9fabe65d7a6a6beb70a0e000">create_schema_pg_temp</a> ()</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Create the temporary schema if it does not exist yet. <br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">void&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#ab194d6a1222672c314ea39b78aad8fd0">noop</a> ()</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Create volatile noop function. <a href="#ab194d6a1222672c314ea39b78aad8fd0"></a><br/></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="mdescLeft">&#160;</td><td class="mdescRight">Generate random remporary names for temp table and other names. <br/></td></tr>
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text&#160;</td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#abc867482053e6692047d051b679953a5">bool_to_text</a> (boolean)</td></tr>
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<hr/><a name="details" id="details"></a><h2>Detailed Description</h2>
<div class="textblock"><dl class="see"><dt><b>See also:</b></dt><dd>For a brief overview of utility functions, see the module description <a class="el" href="group__grp__utilities.html">DB Administrator Utilities</a>. </dd></dl>
<p>Definition in file <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html">utilities.sql_in</a>.</p>
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<dl><dt><b>Parameters:</b></dt><dd>
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<dl class="return"><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt><dd><code>TRUE</code> if an exception is raised while executing <code>sql</code>, <code>FALSE</code> otherwise. </dd></dl>
<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html#l00123">123</a> of file <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html">utilities.sql_in</a>.</p>
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<p>This function exists for portability. Some DBMSs like PostgreSQL treat floating-point numbers as fully ordered -- contrary to IEEE 754. (See, e.g., the <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-FLOAT">PostgreSQL documentation</a>. For portability, MADlib code should not make use of such "features" directly, but only use <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in.html#a48bed63cab78a5446fa4c122eaae3a40" title="Check if a floating-point number is NaN (not a number)">isnan()</a> instead.</p>
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<dl class="return"><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt><dd><code>TRUE</code> if <code>number</code> is <code>NaN</code>, <code>FALSE</code> otherwise </dd></dl>
<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html#l00152">152</a> of file <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html">utilities.sql_in</a>.</p>
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<p>The only use of this function is as an optimization fence when used in the SELECT list of a query. See, e.g., <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2012-07/msg00030.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2012-07/msg00030.php</a> </p>
<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html#l00191">191</a> of file <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html">utilities.sql_in</a>.</p>
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<dl class="return"><dt><b>Returns:</b></dt><dd>Summary of MADlib build information, consisting of MADlib version, git revision, cmake configuration time, build type, build system, C compiler, and C++ compiler </dd></dl>
<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html#l00055">55</a> of file <a class="el" href="utilities_8sql__in_source.html">utilities.sql_in</a>.</p>
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