| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by) |
| Date: | 2010-08-05 18:38:01 |
| Message-ID: | 27355.1281033481@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I vote against this patch. There are plenty of other places that SQL is
> confusing, and this move seems excessive to me, and I find the
> functionality that is proposed for removal quite useful.
Huh? The functionality proposed for removal is only that of omitting an
explicit delimiter argument for string_agg(). Since the default value
(an empty string) doesn't seem to be the right thing all that often
anyway, I'm not following why you think this is a significant downgrade.
regards, tom lane
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