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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:44:02 GMT, Edmund Lian wrote:

>I found this example in "Practical PostgreSQL"... will it do the job?

Answering my own question: kind of. The problem with custom aggregates
is that they need to be used with a "group by" clause, and this means
that the select cannot return columns that are not aggregates of some
kind. What I'm trying to return are rows that are a combination of
columns and aggregates.

...Edmund.