Re: Review: listagg aggregate

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Scott Bailey <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Review: listagg aggregate
Date: 2010-01-25 10:09:33
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On sön, 2010-01-24 at 21:29 -0800, Scott Bailey wrote:
> I think listagg or string_agg would be the most appropriate names. Oh
> and before Oracle had wm_concat, Tom Kyte wrote a function called
> stragg that was pretty popular.

Well,

xmlagg -> concatenates values to form xml datum
array_agg -> concatenates values to form array datum
??? -> concatenates values to form string datum

So it's pretty clear that listagg does not fit into this scheme.

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