| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by) |
| Date: | 2010-08-05 18:32:30 |
| Message-ID: | 1281033150.22868.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On ons, 2010-08-04 at 18:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> This policy also implies that we are never going to allow default
> arguments for aggregates, or at least never have any built-in ones
> that use such a feature.
>
> By my count the following people had offered an opinion on making
> this change:
> for: tgl, josh, badalex, mmoncure
> against: rhaas, thom
> Anybody else want to vote, or change their vote after seeing the
> patch?
I vote against this patch. There are plenty of other places that SQL is
confusing, and this move seems excessive to me, and I find the
functionality that is proposed for removal quite useful.
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