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Doc: clarify behavior of standard aggregates for null inputs.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:37:22 +0000 (16:37 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:37:22 +0000 (16:37 -0400)
commitc0222c2c9b8145a0ccbee7d801db848e871f2e14
treed21070743c15dc62517e3f751676099ad351b219
parent1510339dce3c70757a87be3880e102e0511bf288
Doc: clarify behavior of standard aggregates for null inputs.

Section 4.2.7 says that unless otherwise specified, built-in
aggregates ignore rows in which any input is null.  This is
not true of the JSON aggregates, but it wasn't documented.
Fix that.

Of the other entries in table 9.55, some were explicit about
ignoring nulls, and some weren't; for consistency and
self-contained-ness, make them all say it explicitly.

Per bug #15884 from Tim Möhlmann.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15884-c32d848f787fcae3@postgresql.org
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml