Re: patch: bytea_agg - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: patch: bytea_agg
Date
Msg-id 1333570820.10072.18.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: patch: bytea_agg  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: patch: bytea_agg  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On fre, 2011-12-23 at 19:51 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On ons, 2011-12-21 at 11:04 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > this patch adds a bytea_agg aggregation.
> >
> > It allow fast bytea concatetation.
>
> Why not call it string_agg?  All the function names are the same between
> text and bytea (e.g., ||, substr, position, length).  It would be nice
> not to introduce arbitrary differences.

Here is a patch to do the renaming.  As it stands, it fails the
opr_sanity regression test, because that complains that there are now
two aggregate functions string_agg with different number of arguments.
It seems to me that that test should really only complain if the common
argument types of the two aggregates are the same, correct?


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