DISTINCT term in aggregate function

From: Pantelis Theodosiou <ypercube(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: DISTINCT term in aggregate function
Date: 2021-03-18 18:03:03
Message-ID: CAE3TBxyiC0ivwhAVAeL8C8G6UUpyQ+WKUrEnRZ7LsE-LRXzR8A@mail.gmail.com
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Hi, I didn't think of including you in this suggestion.
Or the pdsql-docs was not the right list to post? I didn't want to mix it
with the GROUP BY DISTINCT patch.

Please check my suggestion.

Best regards
Pantelis Theodosiou

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From: Pantelis Theodosiou <ypercube(at)gmail(dot)com>
Date: Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 1:03 AM
Subject: Fwd: GROUP BY DISTINCT
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From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: GROUP BY DISTINCT
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Georgios Kokolatos <
gkokolatos(at)protonmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>

Hi Vik,

The patch seems quite ready, I have just two comments.

1) Shouldn't this add another <indexterm> for DISTINCT, somewhere in the
documentation? Now the index points just to the SELECT DISTINCT part.

.....

regards

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Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

After reading the above thread in hackers, I noticed that the index does
not point to aggrgeate functions either and DISTINCT is not mentioned in
the aggregate functions page either:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-aggregate.html
Shouldn't it be mentioned with an example of COUNT(DISTINCT ...) or
aggregate_function(DISTINCT ...) in general ?

Best regards

Pantelis Theodosiou

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