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Re: Review: listagg aggregate

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Scott Bailey <artacus@comcast.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-26T18:09:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> Meh. This is all just bike-shedding. I'm fine with string_agg(), though in truth none of the names has really been great. The inclusion of "agg" in the name is unfortunate.

Yeah, I wouldn't be for it either if it weren't for the precedent of
array_agg.  I was quite surprised that the SQL committee chose that
name, because they've avoided using the term "aggregate function" at
all, but there it is ...

			regards, tom lane