Re: idea - new aggregates median, listagg

2009/12/16 Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 2009/12/15 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am looking on new feature - ORDER clause in aggregate, and I thing,
>> so we are able to effectively implement some non standard, but well
>> known aggregates.
>>
>> a) function median - it is relative frequent request - with usually
>> slow implementation
>>
>> b) function listagg (it is analogy of group_concat from MySQL) - it
>> should simplify report generating and some other
>>
>> What is your opinion? Do you like to see these functions in core?
>>
>>
>
> I'm probably missing the point here, but when I originally saw MySQL's
> group_concat function, I found it odd that it featured ordering
> functionality.  Shouldn't the order by determined by the query itself?
> Otherwise it's almost as if its separating the relationship between the
> result column and the resultset.
>

Aggregates as group_concat or listagg are not typical SQL aggregates.
With these aggregates we are able to do some reports on SQL level
without stored procedures. What I know, order is determined only for
non hash aggregates - and you cannot specify method of aggregation, so
possibility to specify ORDER is important. But this feature isn't
related to this "proposal". It was commited yesterday - so you can
look on discussion about this feature.

Regards
Pavel Stehuke

> Thom
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