On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Thom Brown wrote:

>>> ould appreciate the recipe for removing the NULLs.
>> 
>> WHERE clause :P
> 
> There may be cases where that's undesirable, such as there being more
> than one aggregate in the SELECT list, or the column being grouped on
> needing to return rows regardless as to whether there's NULLs in the
> column being targeted by array_agg() or not.

Exactly the issue I ran into:

    SELECT name AS distribution,
           array_agg(
               CASE relstatus WHEN 'stable'
               THEN version
               ELSE NULL
           END ORDER BY version) AS stable,
           array_agg(
               CASE relstatus
               WHEN 'testing'
               THEN version
               ELSE NULL
           END ORDER BY version) AS testing
      FROM distributions
     GROUP BY name;

      distribution │      stable       │      testing       
     ──────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────
      pair         │ {NULL,1.0.0,NULL} │ {0.0.1,NULL,1.2.0}
      pgtap        │ {NULL}            │ {0.0.1}
     (2 rows)

Annoying.

Best,

David


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