| From: | Pierre Forstmann <pierre(dot)forstmann(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2026-03-09 20:21:44 |
| Message-ID: | de6c5d45-7ce9-42bd-9528-97fdf4ffa0e4@gmail.com |
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Hello,
I can write a LISTAGG aggregate for:
create table emp(deptno numeric, ename text);
SELECT deptno, LISTAGG(ename, ','::text ORDER BY ename) AS employees
FROM emp GROUP BY deptno ORDER BY deptno;
I would like to know if is possible to create an aggregate LISTAGG that
would work like in Oracle:
SELECT deptno,
listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY ename) AS employees
FROM emp
GROUP BY deptno
ORDER BY deptno;
I failed and IA also failed. Claude says:
It is not possible to exactly replicate listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP
(ORDER BY ename) as a custom PostgreSQL aggregate
because PostgreSQL strictly forbids ungrouped columns as direct
arguments to ordered-set aggregates.
Do you agree ?
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