Re: patch: bytea_agg

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch: bytea_agg
Date: 2011-12-23 18:23:13
Message-ID: CAFj8pRC2mh7fUY6oAu8rObjG4i4zhDU_VkLg2JMh_vvbAxPWXw@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

2011/12/23 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>:
> 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.

My opinion is not too strong. I don't think so using string_agg is
good name (for bytea_agg) - as minimal (and only one) reason is
different API - there is no support for delimiter. If I remember well
discussion about string_agg, where delimiter is not optimal, there is
request for immutable interface for aggregates - there was a issue
with ORDER clause. So bytea_agg is good name.

Regards

Pavel

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