Re: Adding argument names to aggregate functions

Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>

From: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-04-14T09:12:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 12.04.23 19:53, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker<ilmari@ilmari.org>  writes:
>
>> Hi hackers,
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one who can never remember which way around
>> the value and delimiter arguments go for string_agg() and has to look it
>> up in the manual every time. To make it more convenient, here's a patch
>> that adds proargnames to its pg_proc entries so that it can be seen with
>> a quick \df in psql.
> Added to the 2023-07 commitfest:
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4275/
>
> - ilmari

+1 for adding the argument names.

The patch needs a rebase though.. it no longer applies :

$ git apply 
~/Downloads/0001-Add-argument-names-to-multi-argument-aggregates.patch
error: patch failed: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat:8899
error: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat: patch does not apply

Jim

Commits

  1. Add proargnames to multi-argument aggregate functions