hi, Who decides if a seemingly-useful aggregate is added to Postgres? I would like to advocate for a couple, but I worry that I'm misunderstanding some community process that has decided _not_ to add aggregates or something.
1. I just discovered first()/last() as defined in the wiki [1], where it's noted that conversion from Access or Oracle is much easier with them. 2. We use our "homemade" jsonb_object_agg(jsonb) constantly, which is modeled off of (built-in) json_object_agg(name, value) and (built-in) jsonb_agg(expression). [2] Since building these into Postgres (though not fast C versions) is a matter of a dozen lines of SQL, why haven't they been added already? Seems like a great thing to brag about in release notes, etc. Thanks for your thoughts, Seamus [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First/last_(aggregate) [2] http://blog.faraday.io/how-to-aggregate-jsonb-in-postgres/ -- Seamus Abshere, SCEA https://www.faraday.io https://github.com/seamusabshere https://linkedin.com/in/seamusabshere -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
