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Re: patch: bytea_agg

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

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From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-12-24T13:13:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, because it doesn't operate on strings.
>
> I argued when we added string_agg that it ought to be called
> concat_agg, or something like that, but I got shouted down.  So now
> here we are.

+1.  Using the input type names to name the function is a mistake and
should be stopped...enough.  It's verbose and unnecessary...everything
else in sql is heavily overloaded (we don't have int_max() and
float_max()).

merlin