>>>>> "Heikki" == Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> 
>>>>> writes:

 >> Herewith a patch to implement agg(foo ORDER BY bar) with or
 >> without DISTINCT, etc.

 Heikki> What does that mean? Aggregate functions are supposed to be
 Heikki> commutative, right?

The SQL spec defines two non-commutative aggregates that we implement:

array_agg(x ORDER BY ...)
xmlagg(x ORDER BY ...)

In addition, of course, we allow user-defined aggregates, which are
perfectly free to be non-commutative.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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