On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm confused: that looks like the two-argument form to me. Have I missed something?
>
> Yeah, the whole point of the thread: that's not a call of a two-argument
> aggregate. It's a call of a one-argument aggregate, using a two-column
> sort key to order the aggregate input rows.
OH!. Wow, weird. I never noticed that.
>> 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.
>
> Well, maybe we need to expend some more sweat on the error message then.
> But this patch was still a prerequisite thing, because without it there
> is no error that we can complain about.
Yeah, understood.
Best,
David