Re: Adding argument names to aggregate functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de> writes:

> On 12.04.23 19:53, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
>> Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker<ilmari@ilmari.org>  writes:
>>
>>> Hi hackers,
>>>
>>> I'm sure I'm not the only one who can never remember which way around
>>> the value and delimiter arguments go for string_agg() and has to look it
>>> up in the manual every time. To make it more convenient, here's a patch
>>> that adds proargnames to its pg_proc entries so that it can be seen with
>>> a quick \df in psql.
>> Added to the 2023-07 commitfest:
>>
>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4275/
>>
>> - ilmari
>
> +1 for adding the argument names.
>
> The patch needs a rebase though.. it no longer applies :
>
> $ git apply
> ~/Downloads/0001-Add-argument-names-to-multi-argument-aggregates.patch
> error: patch failed: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat:8899
> error: src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat: patch does not apply

Thanks for the heads-up, here's a rebased patch.  I've also formatted
the lines to match what reformat_dat_file.pl wants.  It also wanted to
reformat a bunch of other entries, but I left those alone.

- ilmari

From a6ff997fcea7aa7201318cb94db0173ea6efdf02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Dagfinn=20Ilmari=20Manns=C3=A5ker?= <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:06:29 +0000
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2] Add argument names to multi-argument aggregates

This makes it easier to see which way around the arguments go when
using \dfa.  This is particularly relevant for string_agg(), but add
it to json(b)_object_agg() too for good measure.
---
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index b516cee8bd..b2db8d07e1 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -5017,7 +5017,7 @@
 { oid => '3538', descr => 'concatenate aggregate input into a string',
   proname => 'string_agg', prokind => 'a', proisstrict => 'f',
   prorettype => 'text', proargtypes => 'text text',
-  prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
+  proargnames => '{value,delimiter}', prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
 { oid => '3543', descr => 'aggregate transition function',
   proname => 'bytea_string_agg_transfn', proisstrict => 'f',
   prorettype => 'internal', proargtypes => 'internal bytea bytea',
@@ -5029,7 +5029,7 @@
 { oid => '3545', descr => 'concatenate aggregate input into a bytea',
   proname => 'string_agg', prokind => 'a', proisstrict => 'f',
   prorettype => 'bytea', proargtypes => 'bytea bytea',
-  prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
+  proargnames => '{value,delimiter}', prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
 
 # To ASCII conversion
 { oid => '1845', descr => 'encode text from DB encoding to ASCII text',
@@ -8978,7 +8978,7 @@
 { oid => '3197', descr => 'aggregate input into a json object',
   proname => 'json_object_agg', prokind => 'a', proisstrict => 'f',
   provolatile => 's', prorettype => 'json', proargtypes => 'any any',
-  prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
+  proargnames => '{key,value}', prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
 { oid => '8955', descr => 'aggregate non-NULL input into a json object',
   proname => 'json_object_agg_strict', prokind => 'a', proisstrict => 'f',
   provolatile => 's', prorettype => 'json', proargtypes => 'any any',
@@ -9906,7 +9906,7 @@
   prosrc => 'jsonb_object_agg_finalfn' },
 { oid => '3270', descr => 'aggregate inputs into jsonb object',
   proname => 'jsonb_object_agg', prokind => 'a', proisstrict => 'f',
-  prorettype => 'jsonb', proargtypes => 'any any',
+  prorettype => 'jsonb', proargtypes => 'any any', proargnames => '{key,value}',
   prosrc => 'aggregate_dummy' },
 { oid => '8963', descr => 'aggregate non-NULL inputs into jsonb object',
   proname => 'jsonb_object_agg_strict', prokind => 'a', proisstrict => 'f',
-- 
2.39.2