Is there a better way to calculate the median (not average)

Question

Suppose I have the following table definition:

CREATE TABLE x (i serial primary key, value integer not null);

I want to calculate the MEDIAN o

Answer 1

Indeed there IS an easier way. In Postgres you can define your own aggregate functions. I posted functions to do median as well as mode and range to the PostgreSQL snippets library a while back.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Aggregate_Median