Re: Review: listagg aggregate

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>

To: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: "Scott Bailey" <artacus@comcast.net>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-26T16:15:36Z

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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
 
>> why is concat_agg better than listagg ?
> 
> It isn't ... it's the wrong part of speech.  "concat"enate is a
> verb,
 
Concatenation is a noun.  "concat" doesn't get far enough to
distinguish.
 
-Kevin