Re: Review: listagg aggregate

2010/1/28 David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>:
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Takahiro Itagaki wrote:
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>> * I think we cannot cache the delimiter at the first call.
>>  For example,
>>    SELECT string_agg(elem, delim)
>>      FROM (VALUES('A', ','), ('B', '+'), ('C', '*')) t(elem, delim);
>>  should return 'A+B*C' rather than 'A,B,C'.
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> Ooh, nice.
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>> * Can we use StringInfo directly as the aggregate context instead of
>>  StringAggState? For the first reason, we need to drop 'delimiter' field
>>  from struct StringAggState. Now it has only StringInfo field.
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> Makes sense.

no, has not.

Pavel

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>> * We'd better avoiding to call text_to_cstring() for delimitors and elements
>>  for performance reason. We can use appendBinaryStringInfo() here.
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>> My proposal patch attached.
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>> Also, I've not changed it yet, but it might be considerable:
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>> * Do we need better names for string_agg1_transfn and string_agg2_transfn?
>>  They are almost "internal names", but we could have more
>>  like string_agg_with_sep_transfn.
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> Yes please.
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>> Comments?
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> Patch looks great, thank you!
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> David
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