Re: array_agg() NULL Handling

On 1 September 2010 07:56, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
> On 1 September 2010 06:45, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
>> The aggregate docs say:
>>
>>> The first form of aggregate expression invokes the aggregate across all input rows for which the given
expression(s)yield non-null values. (Actually, it is up to the aggregate function whether to ignore null values or not
—but all the standard ones do.) 
>>
>> -- http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-expressions.html#SYNTAX-AGGREGATES
>>
>> That, however, is not true of array_agg():
>>
>> try=# CREATE TABLE foo(id int);
>> CREATE TABLE
>> try=# INSERT INTO foo values(1), (2), (NULL), (3);
>> INSERT 0 4
>> try=# select array_agg(id) from foo;
>>  array_agg
>> ──────────────
>>  {1,2,NULL,3}
>> (1 row)
>>
>> So are the docs right, or is array_agg() right?
>
> I think it might be both.  array_agg doesn't return NULL, it returns
> an array which contains NULL.

The second I wrote that, I realised it was b*ll%$ks, as I was still in
the process of waking up.

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