Re: Do AGGREGATES consistently use sort order? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Webb Sprague
Subject Re: Do AGGREGATES consistently use sort order?
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Msg-id b11ea23c0709061143pcdb8d45l2d54831d898dd446@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Do AGGREGATES consistently use sort order?  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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order/aggregate thing is a general question.
>
> Yes.
>
> You can even do this with GROUP BY as long as the leading columns of the ORDER
> BY inside the subquery exactly matches the GROUP BY columns.
>
> In theory we can't promise anything about future versions of Postgres but
> there are lots of people doing this already so if ever this was lost there
> would probably be some new explicit way to achieve the same thing.

Does anyone have any spec links, oracle behavior, or whatever?  For
now I will trust Postgres to continue behaving sanely, but I am
curious.

Thx to Gregory for the quick reply

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>   Gregory Stark
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