On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@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