Re: Closing some 8.4 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Closing some 8.4 open items
Date
Msg-id 20090411233746.GC29564@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Closing some 8.4 open items  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:35:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > It occurs to me that we ought to allow for a possibility that a
> > function can be more than one special case.  For example, sum() is
> > both an aggregate and a windowing function, while rank() is only a
> > windowing function.
> 
> If it makes the display even one character wider, -1 from me.
> That's a purely hypothetical problem for the classification
> we're discussing.  (No, I don't feel a need for \df to remind
> me every time that aggregates can also be window functions.)

OK :)

Cheers,
David.
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