Re: patch: bytea_agg
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-04-04T20:20:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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- bytea-string-agg.patch (text/x-patch) patch
On fre, 2011-12-23 at 19:51 +0200, Peter Eisentraut 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. Here is a patch to do the renaming. As it stands, it fails the opr_sanity regression test, because that complains that there are now two aggregate functions string_agg with different number of arguments. It seems to me that that test should really only complain if the common argument types of the two aggregates are the same, correct?