On 5 August 2010 19:39, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

What function name do you believe was called?

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Thom Brown
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