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Julian Hyde resolved CALCITE-2224.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Fixed in 
[7bc9f140|http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/calcite/commit/7bc9f140]; 
thanks for the PR, [~zhztheplayer]!

I made a few changes: I refactored your {{enum AggregateOrderLevel}} into a 
general-purpose {{enum Optionality}}. Also changed more code to use 
{{AggregateCall#transform(TargetMapping)}, which is more reliable because it 
applies the same permutation to operands, filter and collation. And I factored 
the {{RelBuilder}} API changes into CALCITE-2654, so we don't have to re-work 
the {{RelBuilder.aggregateCall}} API again.

> WITHIN GROUP clause for aggregate functions
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>
>                 Key: CALCITE-2224
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2224
>             Project: Calcite
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Julian Hyde
>            Assignee: Julian Hyde
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.18.0
>
>
> The {{WITHIN GROUP}} clause lets aggregate functions operate on a sorted list 
> of rows, rather than the usual unsorted collection. Order only matters for a 
> few aggregate functions, but we should allow it for all.
> Other analytic functions where {{WITHIN GROUP}} would have an effect: 
> {{RANK}}, {{PERCENT_RANK}}, {{FIRST_VALUE}}, {{LAST_VALUE}}, 
> {{PERCENTILE_CONT}}, {{PERCENTILE_DISC}}.
> {{LISTAGG(value [, separator])}} is an [Oracle 
> function|https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/db112/SQLRF/functions089.htm#SQLRF30030]
>  that concatenates strings. E.g.
> {code:java}
> SELECT LISTAGG(last_name, '; ')
>          WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY hire_date, last_name)
>   FROM Emp
> GROUP BY deptno{code}
> {{STRING_AGG(value [, separator])}} is a [Microsoft SQL Server function|] 
> that does something similar.
> {{GROUP_CONCAT(value [, separator] [ORDER BY expr [, expr]...)}} is the 
> [MySQL|https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-by-functions.html#function_group-concat]
>  equivalent to {{LISTAGG}}. Note the optional {{ORDER BY}} clause within the 
> parentheses.
> {{COLLECT(value)}} is a SQL standard aggregate function that creates 
> multisets. Oracle added a non-standard {{ORDER BY}} clause within the 
> parentheses.
> In my opinion, {{WITHIN GROUP}} should always be optional. {{LISTAGG}} 
> without {{WITHIN GROUP}} would produce non-deterministic output (which is 
> OK); other aggregate functions such as {{MIN}} and {{SUM}} would just ignore 
> {{WITHIN GROUP}}.



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