"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes:
> Because it's an aggregate that cocatenates values. It's not an  
> aggregate that lists things. I also like concat_agg better than  
> string_agg because it's not limited to acting on strings.

But what it *produces* is a string.  For comparison, the
SQL-standard-specified array_agg produces arrays, but what it
acts on isn't an array.

                        regards, tom lane

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