commenting on polymorphic aggregates possible?

Started by Christopher Kings-Lynneabout 22 years ago2 messages
#1Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au

-- value-independent transition function
CREATE AGGREGATE newcnt (
sfunc = int4inc, basetype = 'any', stype = int4,
initcond = '0'
);

COMMENT ON AGGREGATE newcnt (any) IS 'an any agg comment';
ERROR: syntax error at or near "any" at character 30
COMMENT ON AGGREGATE newcnt (any) IS NULL;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "any" at character 30

Is there any way of commenting that aggregate?

Chris

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#1)
Re: commenting on polymorphic aggregates possible?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

COMMENT ON AGGREGATE newcnt (any) IS 'an any agg comment';
ERROR: syntax error at or near "any" at character 30

ANY is a reserved word. To reference the pseudotype named "any",
you need quotes:
COMMENT ON AGGREGATE newcnt ("any") IS 'an any agg comment';

No doubt it would've been better to use a different name for the
pseudotype, but I think the behavior of CREATE AGGREGATE's
"basetype = 'any'" was chosen long before there was any thought of
making Postgres SQL-compliant :-(

regards, tom lane