On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, because it doesn't operate on strings.
>
> I argued when we added string_agg that it ought to be called
> concat_agg, or something like that, but I got shouted down. So now
> here we are.
+1. Using the input type names to name the function is a mistake and
should be stopped...enough. It's verbose and unnecessary...everything
else in sql is heavily overloaded (we don't have int_max() and
float_max()).
merlin
