| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| 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 21:02:11 |
| Message-ID: | 29858.1281042131@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On tor, 2010-08-05 at 14:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Huh? The functionality proposed for removal is only that of omitting
>> an explicit delimiter argument for string_agg(). Since the default
>> value (an empty string) doesn't seem to be the right thing all that
>> often anyway, I'm not following why you think this is a significant
>> downgrade.
> I just think it's useful to have the one-argument version. I understand
> the functionality is available in other ways.
Well, other things being equal I'd have preferred to keep the
one-argument version too. But this thread has made it even clearer than
before that we will get continuing bug reports if we leave the behavior
alone. I don't think the ability to leave off the delimiter value is
worth the amount of confusion it'll cause.
regards, tom lane
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