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From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Doc: clarify behavior of standard aggregates for null inputs.
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Msg-id E1i2iDq-0005sU-08@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Doc: clarify behavior of standard aggregates for null inputs.

Section 4.2.7 says that unless otherwise specified, built-in
aggregates ignore rows in which any input is null.  This is
not true of the JSON aggregates, but it wasn't documented.
Fix that.

Of the other entries in table 9.55, some were explicit about
ignoring nulls, and some weren't; for consistency and
self-contained-ness, make them all say it explicitly.

Per bug #15884 from Tim Möhlmann.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15884-c32d848f787fcae3@postgresql.org

Branch
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REL9_5_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/890040b9c61bf3b826c494b183983d68124353fb

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


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