Re: array_agg() NULL Handling - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: array_agg() NULL Handling
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Msg-id AANLkTikOynn0Hh-19+H6MeR0MsT1h3Yk3vHCfZDXQZBV@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: array_agg() NULL Handling  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: array_agg() NULL Handling
Re: array_agg() NULL Handling
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On 1 September 2010 18:47, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:16:41AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>> > Docs is wrong :) I like current implementation.  You can remove a
>> > NULLs from aggregation very simply, but different direction isn't
>> > possible
>>
>> Would appreciate the recipe for removing the NULLs.
>
> WHERE clause :P

There may be cases where that's undesirable, such as there being more
than one aggregate in the SELECT list, or the column being grouped on
needing to return rows regardless as to whether there's NULLs in the
column being targeted by array_agg() or not.
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