LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pierre Forstmann
Subject LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL
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Msg-id de6c5d45-7ce9-42bd-9528-97fdf4ffa0e4@gmail.com
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Hello,

I can write a LISTAGG aggregate for:

create table emp(deptno numeric, ename text);

SELECT deptno, LISTAGG(ename, ','::text ORDER BY ename) AS employees 
FROM   emp GROUP BY deptno ORDER BY deptno;

I would like to know if is possible to create an aggregate LISTAGG that 
would work like in Oracle:

SELECT deptno,
        listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY ename) AS employees
FROM emp
GROUP BY deptno
ORDER BY deptno;

I failed and IA also failed. Claude says:

It is not possible to exactly replicate listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP 
(ORDER BY ename) as a custom PostgreSQL aggregate
because PostgreSQL strictly forbids ungrouped columns as direct 
arguments to ordered-set aggregates.

Do you agree ?







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