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var_samp(numeric) and stddev_samp(numeric) disagreed with their float cousins about what to do for a single non-null input value that is NaN. The float versions return NULL on the grounds that the calculation is only defined for more than one non-null input, which seems like the right answer. But the numeric versions returned NaN, as a result of dealing with edge cases in the wrong order. Fix that. The patch also gets rid of an insignificant memory leak in such cases. This inconsistency is of long standing, but on the whole it seems best not to back-patch the change into stable branches; nobody's complained and it's such an obscure point that nobody's likely to complain. (Note that v13 and v12 now contain test cases that will notice if we accidentally back-patch this behavior change in future.) Report and patch by me; thanks to Dean Rasheed for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/353062.1591898766@sss.pgh.pa.us
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