Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers