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Re: patch: bytea_agg

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-12-23T19:16:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On fre, 2011-12-23 at 13:30 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On ons, 2011-12-21 at 11:04 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> this patch adds a bytea_agg aggregation.
> >>
> >> It allow fast bytea concatetation.
> >
> > Why not call it string_agg?  All the function names are the same between
> > text and bytea (e.g., ||, substr, position, length).  It would be nice
> > not to introduce arbitrary differences.
> 
> Well, because it doesn't operate on strings.

Sure, binary strings.  Both the SQL standard and the PostgreSQL
documentation use that term.