| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: patch: bytea_agg |
| Date: | 2011-12-24 13:13:32 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0zcqh3smyGASbDJb=SVng-=HrWh=Od1LzofavpOCZjaHw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.
+1. Using the input type names to name the function is a mistake and
should be stopped...enough. It's verbose and unnecessary...everything
else in sql is heavily overloaded (we don't have int_max() and
float_max()).
merlin
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