| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: patch: bytea_agg |
| Date: | 2011-12-23 18:30:26 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYrxwd8Lv0Qj-6RK80gYzMRtOgy6mjwhUT4ELTGZ+4m0g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On ons, 2011-12-21 at 11:04 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> this patch adds a bytea_agg aggregation.
>>
>> It allow fast bytea concatetation.
>
> Why not call it string_agg? All the function names are the same between
> text and bytea (e.g., ||, substr, position, length). It would be nice
> not to introduce arbitrary differences.
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.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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