Re: ordered aggregates using WITHIN GROUP (was Re: can somebody execute this query on Oracle 11.2g and send result?)

2010/1/29 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
> Jonah H. Harris escribió:
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>> The syntax is listagg(expression [, delimiter]) WITHIN GROUP (order by
>> clause) [OVER partition clause]
>> If a delimiter is defined, it must be a constant.
>>
>> Query: SELECT listagg(a, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY a) FROM foo;
>> Result: aaa,bbb,ccc
>
> So that's how Oracle supports ordered aggregates?  Interesting -- we
> just got that capability but using a different syntax.  Hmm, the
> SQL:200x draft also has <within group specification> which seems the
> standard way to do the ORDER BY stuff for aggregates ...  Should we
> change the syntax?

Oracle syntax is little bit longer, but it is safer. What is a standard?


Regards
Pavel Stehule

p.s. if it is only syntactic suger, then can't be a problem.

Pavel
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