Re: Oracle to Postgres migration

bimal maity schrieb am 20.12.2023 um 04:35:
> Hi,
>
> I have below query used in Oracle but while migrating to Postgres this code is not supported in Postgres.
> Could you please tell me how to resolve this?
>
> SELECT p.id_po, p.line_number, replace(replace(replace(RTRIM(XMLAGG(XMLELEMENT(name C, regexp_replace(p.protocol_number,'([[:cntrl:]])','', 'g'))ORDER BY 1), ',' ) ,'</C><C>','/'),'<C>',''),'</C>','') AS protocol_number
>                         ,replace(replace(replace(RTRIM(XMLAGG(XMLELEMENT(name C, regexp_replace(p.protocol_status,'([[:cntrl:]])','', 'g'))ORDER BY 1), ',' ) ,'</C><C>','/'),'<C>',''),'</C>','') AS protocol_status
>                         ,replace(replace(replace(RTRIM(XMLAGG(XMLELEMENT(name C, regexp_replace(p.protocol_approver,'([[:cntrl:]])','', 'g'))ORDER BY 1), ',' ) ,'</C><C>','/'),'<C>',''),'</C>','') AS protocol_approver
>                         ,max(p.protocol_date) AS protocol_date
>                         ,replace(replace(replace(RTRIM(XMLAGG(XMLELEMENT(name C, regexp_replace(p.protocol_nota,'([[:cntrl:]])','', 'g'))ORDER BY 1), ',' ) ,'</C><C>','/'),'<C>',''),'</C>','') AS protocol_nota
>                         ,sum(coalesce(p.protocol_value,0)) protocol_value
>                 FROM podl_extended_protocol p
>                 where upper(p.protocol_status) not in ('REJEITADO','ELIMINADO')
>                          group by p.id_po, p.line_number

What exactly does it do? I have often seen the hack using xmlagg/xmlelement/regexp_replace to do some kind of poor man's unnest/string_agg.

If you tell us, what exactly the goal is, I am confident there is a better solution in Postgres.