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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)
commite352a005bc34d8d1a3b3529688996985001cfc62
treecb813118d5e8105d7ee4837cac15c3aabac82362
parentcf86803e8e8ede508b6900b833339f65d0eabd76
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