Re: Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: [BUGS] string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: [BUGS] string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)
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Msg-id 1281033150.22868.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: [BUGS] string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: [BUGS] string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)
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On ons, 2010-08-04 at 18:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> This policy also implies that we are never going to allow default
> arguments for aggregates, or at least never have any built-in ones
> that use such a feature.
> 
> By my count the following people had offered an opinion on making
> this change:
>         for: tgl, josh, badalex, mmoncure
>         against: rhaas, thom
> Anybody else want to vote, or change their vote after seeing the
> patch?

I vote against this patch.  There are plenty of other places that SQL is
confusing, and this move seems excessive to me, and I find the
functionality that is proposed for removal quite useful.



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