Re: Aggregate ORDER BY patch
Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com (Heikki Linnakangas), pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-13T16:32:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>>>>> "Heikki" == Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes: >> Herewith a patch to implement agg(foo ORDER BY bar) with or >> without DISTINCT, etc. Heikki> What does that mean? Aggregate functions are supposed to be Heikki> commutative, right? The SQL spec defines two non-commutative aggregates that we implement: array_agg(x ORDER BY ...) xmlagg(x ORDER BY ...) In addition, of course, we allow user-defined aggregates, which are perfectly free to be non-commutative. -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)