Re: Review: listagg aggregate - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Review: listagg aggregate
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Msg-id B0A1647F-AF31-4D0C-BC29-26AA1EE9F2B1@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: Review: listagg aggregate  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Review: listagg aggregate  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> But what it *produces* is a string.  For comparison, the
> SQL-standard-specified array_agg produces arrays, but what it
> acts on isn't an array.

Meh. This is all just bike-shedding. I'm fine with string_agg(), though in truth none of the names has really been
great.The inclusion of "agg" in the name is unfortunate. 

I'll have a look at Pavel's new patch now.

David



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