On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Applied to HEAD and 9.0.  The mistaken case will now yield this:
> 
> regression=# select string_agg(f1 order by f1, ',') from text_tbl;
> ERROR:  function string_agg(text) does not exist
> LINE 1: select string_agg(f1 order by f1, ',') from text_tbl;
>               ^

I'm confused: that looks like the two-argument form to me. Have I missed 
something?

> HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need 
> to add explicit type casts.
> 
> It's not perfect (I don't think it's practical to get the HINT to
> read "Put the ORDER BY at the end" ;-)) but at least it should
> get people pointed in the right direction when they do this.

It confuses the shit out of me. It says "string_agg(text)" doesn't exist when 
that clearly is not the name of the function you've called.

Best,

David


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