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Re: Review: listagg aggregate

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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: 2010-01-26T18:04:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> But what it *produces* is a string.  For comparison, the
> SQL-standard-specified array_agg produces arrays, but what it
> acts on isn't an array.

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.

I'll have a look at Pavel's new patch now.

David