On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> xmlagg -> concatenates values to form xml datum
>>>> array_agg -> concatenates values to form array datum
>>>> ??? -> concatenates values to form string datum
>>>
>>> concat_agg().
>>
>> I like that one...
>
> why is concat_agg better than listagg ?

Because it doesn't make lists.

Honestly, I don't love concat_agg() either - why should something need
to have agg in the name just because it's an aggregate?  I think the
most descriptive name would be something like
concatenate_with_separator(), but that's kind of long.

...Robert

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