Re: Adding argument names to aggregate functions

From: Jim Jones <jim(dot)jones(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Adding argument names to aggregate functions
Date: 2023-04-14 09:12:24
Message-ID: 16f35a27-ad65-0420-44ee-b41c3fd08aee@uni-muenster.de
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On 12.04.23 19:53, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker<ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org> writes:
>
>> Hi hackers,
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one who can never remember which way around
>> the value and delimiter arguments go for string_agg() and has to look it
>> up in the manual every time. To make it more convenient, here's a patch
>> that adds proargnames to its pg_proc entries so that it can be seen with
>> a quick \df in psql.
> Added to the 2023-07 commitfest:
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4275/
>
> - ilmari

+1 for adding the argument names.

The patch needs a rebase though.. it no longer applies :

$ git apply
~/Downloads/0001-Add-argument-names-to-multi-argument-aggregates.patch
error: patch failed: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat:8899
error: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat: patch does not apply

Jim

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