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

From David E. Wheeler
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 572A5249-4169-4678-8335-C08FE74D6B11@kineticode.com
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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)  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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>)
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On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Applied to HEAD and 9.0.  The mistaken case will now yield this:
>
> regression=# select string_agg(f1 order by f1, ',') from text_tbl;
> ERROR:  function string_agg(text) does not exist
> LINE 1: select string_agg(f1 order by f1, ',') from text_tbl;
>               ^

I'm confused: that looks like the two-argument form to me. Have I missed something?

> HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.
>
> It's not perfect (I don't think it's practical to get the HINT to
> read "Put the ORDER BY at the end" ;-)) but at least it should
> get people pointed in the right direction when they do this.

It confuses the shit out of me. It says "string_agg(text)" doesn't exist when that clearly is not the name of the
functionyou've called. 

Best,

David



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