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* Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL
@ 2026-03-10 20:23 Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
  2026-03-10 21:46 ` Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Pavel Stehule @ 2026-03-10 20:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Juan Rodrigo Alejandro Burgos Mella <[email protected]>; +Cc: Pierre Forstmann <[email protected]>; Paul A Jungwirth <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>

Hi

út 10. 3. 2026 v 20:58 odesílatel Juan Rodrigo Alejandro Burgos Mella <
[email protected]> napsal:

> To do something similar, you would have to fork the source code and
> implement the declarations with the same syntax, resulting in something
> like Postracle.
>

orafce has listagg function https://github.com/orafce/orafce

Regards

Pavel


>
> Atte
> JRBM
>
> El mar, 10 mar 2026 a las 13:53, Pierre Forstmann (<
> [email protected]>) escribió:
>
>> I agree but I just would like to know if there is way to be compatible
>> with Oracle syntax using aggregate features in PostgreSQL
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Le 09/03/2026 à 23:05, Paul A Jungwirth a écrit :
>> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM Pierre Forstmann
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I can write a LISTAGG aggregate for:
>> >>
>> >> create table emp(deptno numeric, ename text);
>> >>
>> >> SELECT deptno, LISTAGG(ename, ','::text ORDER BY ename) AS employees
>> >> FROM   emp GROUP BY deptno ORDER BY deptno;
>> >>
>> >> I would like to know if is possible to create an aggregate LISTAGG that
>> >> would work like in Oracle:
>> >>
>> >> SELECT deptno,
>> >>          listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY ename) AS employees
>> >> FROM emp
>> >> GROUP BY deptno
>> >> ORDER BY deptno;
>> > I don't think you need a custom aggregate here. In Postgres you can say:
>> >
>> > select deptno,
>> >        string_agg(ename, ',' ORDER BY ename) AS employees
>> > FROM emp
>> > GROUP BY deptno
>> > ORDER BY deptno;
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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* Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL
  2026-03-10 20:23 Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
@ 2026-03-10 21:46 ` Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
  2026-03-11 15:53   ` Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL [email protected]
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Pavel Stehule @ 2026-03-10 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Juan Rodrigo Alejandro Burgos Mella <[email protected]>; +Cc: Pierre Forstmann <[email protected]>; Paul A Jungwirth <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>

út 10. 3. 2026 v 21:23 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
napsal:

> Hi
>
> út 10. 3. 2026 v 20:58 odesílatel Juan Rodrigo Alejandro Burgos Mella <
> [email protected]> napsal:
>
>> To do something similar, you would have to fork the source code and
>> implement the declarations with the same syntax, resulting in something
>> like Postracle.
>>
>
> orafce has listagg function https://github.com/orafce/orafce
>

but it doesn't support syntax WITHING GROUP syntax. Probably there is not a
possibility to implement it in extension without introducing a new kind of
aggregate functions in core, or enhancing behaviour of ordered-set kind of
aggregates.

Regards

Pavel





> Regards
>
> Pavel
>
>
>>
>> Atte
>> JRBM
>>
>> El mar, 10 mar 2026 a las 13:53, Pierre Forstmann (<
>> [email protected]>) escribió:
>>
>>> I agree but I just would like to know if there is way to be compatible
>>> with Oracle syntax using aggregate features in PostgreSQL
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Le 09/03/2026 à 23:05, Paul A Jungwirth a écrit :
>>> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM Pierre Forstmann
>>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> Hello,
>>> >>
>>> >> I can write a LISTAGG aggregate for:
>>> >>
>>> >> create table emp(deptno numeric, ename text);
>>> >>
>>> >> SELECT deptno, LISTAGG(ename, ','::text ORDER BY ename) AS employees
>>> >> FROM   emp GROUP BY deptno ORDER BY deptno;
>>> >>
>>> >> I would like to know if is possible to create an aggregate LISTAGG
>>> that
>>> >> would work like in Oracle:
>>> >>
>>> >> SELECT deptno,
>>> >>          listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY ename) AS
>>> employees
>>> >> FROM emp
>>> >> GROUP BY deptno
>>> >> ORDER BY deptno;
>>> > I don't think you need a custom aggregate here. In Postgres you can
>>> say:
>>> >
>>> > select deptno,
>>> >        string_agg(ename, ',' ORDER BY ename) AS employees
>>> > FROM emp
>>> > GROUP BY deptno
>>> > ORDER BY deptno;
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>


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* Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL
  2026-03-10 20:23 Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
  2026-03-10 21:46 ` Re: LISTAGG à la Oracle in PostgreSQL Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
@ 2026-03-11 15:53   ` [email protected]
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: [email protected] @ 2026-03-11 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>; Juan Rodrigo Alejandro Burgos Mella <[email protected]>; Paul A Jungwirth <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>

Thanks.

On 10/03/2026 22:46, Pavel Stehule <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> út 10. 3. 2026 v 21:23 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> napsal:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     út 10. 3. 2026 v 20:58 odesílatel Juan Rodrigo Alejandro Burgos
>     Mella <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> napsal:
> 
>         To do something similar, you would have to fork the source code
>         and implement the declarations with the same syntax, resulting
>         in something like Postracle.
> 
> 
>     orafce has listagg function https://github.com/orafce/orafce
>     <https://github.com/orafce/orafce;
> 
> 
> but it doesn't support syntax WITHING GROUP syntax. Probably there is 
> not a possibility to implement it in extension without introducing a new 
> kind of aggregate functions in core, or enhancing behaviour of ordered- 
> set kind of aggregates.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pavel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Pavel
> 
> 
>         Atte
>         JRBM
> 
>         El mar, 10 mar 2026 a las 13:53, Pierre Forstmann
>         (<[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>) escribió:
> 
>             I agree but I just would like to know if there is way to be
>             compatible
>             with Oracle syntax using aggregate features in PostgreSQL
> 
>             Thanks.
> 
>             Le 09/03/2026 à 23:05, Paul A Jungwirth a écrit :
>              > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM Pierre Forstmann
>              > <[email protected]
>             <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>              >> Hello,
>              >>
>              >> I can write a LISTAGG aggregate for:
>              >>
>              >> create table emp(deptno numeric, ename text);
>              >>
>              >> SELECT deptno, LISTAGG(ename, ','::text ORDER BY ename)
>             AS employees
>              >> FROM   emp GROUP BY deptno ORDER BY deptno;
>              >>
>              >> I would like to know if is possible to create an
>             aggregate LISTAGG that
>              >> would work like in Oracle:
>              >>
>              >> SELECT deptno,
>              >>          listagg(ename, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY
>             ename) AS employees
>              >> FROM emp
>              >> GROUP BY deptno
>              >> ORDER BY deptno;
>              > I don't think you need a custom aggregate here. In
>             Postgres you can say:
>              >
>              > select deptno,
>              >        string_agg(ename, ',' ORDER BY ename) AS employees
>              > FROM emp
>              > GROUP BY deptno
>              > ORDER BY deptno;
>              >
> 
> 
> 






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