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

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: [BUGS] string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)
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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)  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: [BUGS] string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)
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On 5 August 2010 19:39, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> 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. 
>

What function name do you believe was called?

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