Re: Review: listagg aggregate - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Review: listagg aggregate
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Msg-id 10107.1264521837@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Review: listagg aggregate  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Review: listagg aggregate  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2010/1/25 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
>>> concat_agg().
>> 
>> I like that one...

> why is concat_agg better than listagg ?

It isn't ... it's the wrong part of speech.  "concat"enate is a verb,
whereas the other functions we would like it to be named parallel to
are using nouns there.

(Yes, I know "array" can be used as a verb, but I don't think anyone
reads it that way in "array_agg"...)
        regards, tom lane


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