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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Tom Lane
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Add an example to clarify the use of ORDER BY in multiple-argument
aggregates. People seem to not get this right without help.
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.14
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Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.14
9 2010/08/04 15:27:57 tgl
Exp $ -->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
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unspecified order. In many cases this does not matter; for example,
<function>min</> produces the same result no matter what order it
receives the inputs in. However, some aggregate functions
(such as <function>array_agg</> and <function>
xml
agg</>) produce
(such as <function>array_agg</> and <function>
string_
agg</>) produce
results that depend on the ordering of the input rows. When using
such an aggregate, the optional <replaceable>order_by_clause</> can be
used to specify the desired ordering. The <replaceable>order_by_clause</>
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described in <xref linkend="queries-order">, except that its expressions
are always just expressions and cannot be output-column names or numbers.
For example:
<programlisting>
SELECT array_agg(a ORDER BY b DESC) FROM table;
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
When dealing with multiple-argument aggregate functions, note that the
<literal>ORDER BY</> clause goes after all the aggregate arguments.
For example, this:
<programlisting>
SELECT string_agg(a, ',' ORDER BY a) FROM table;
</programlisting>
not this:
<programlisting>
SELECT string_agg(a ORDER BY a, ',') FROM table; -- not what you want
</programlisting>
The latter syntax will be accepted, but <literal>','</> will be
treated as a (useless) sort key.
</para>
<para>
If <literal>DISTINCT</> is specified in addition to an
<replaceable>order_by_clause</>, then all the <literal>ORDER BY</>
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