Re: [SQL] order function in aggregate

2008-08-20 Thread Mike Toews
Richard Huxton wrote: Michael Toews wrote: You could accumulate the values in an array and then sort that with the final-func that create aggregate supports. Thanks for the help. Here was my final functions to aggregate things into a comma serpented text element (if anyone is interested):

Re: [SQL] order function in aggregate

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Toews wrote: >> This is where I get confused, since in the aggregate function, I have >> specified `SORTOP="<"`, which according to the documentation >> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-createaggregate.html) >> "must be equi

Re: [SQL] order function in aggregate

2008-07-30 Thread Richard Huxton
Michael Toews wrote: Now, I would like to group a summary of the strings in "sub", but they must be ordered alphabetically. Here I attempt the SQL: select commacat(sub), grp from aggr_test group by grp; However, on my system it will output the "commacat" column as: "one, two, three";"pom