Re: More Aggregates questions ... Another scalar parameter for GROUP_CONCAT?

My feeling is that you need ORDER BY expression to make it useful.

- Steve

On 2010-10-07, at 02:50, Axel Polleres wrote:

> When thinking about practical examples for GROUP_CONCAT, I can hardly think of any where I wouldn't want to impose an order...
> ... thus, what's the opinions about adding another scalar parameter "order" which takes as parameter  "DESC"|"ASC"
> 
> That is, e.g. something like:
> 
>    PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
>    SELECT ( SAMPLE(?N) as ?Name)
>       ( GROUP_CONCAT(?M; SEPARATOR = ", " , ORDER="ASC") AS ?Nicknames )
> WHERE { ?P a foaf:Person ;
>           foaf:name ?N ;
>           foaf:nick ?M . }
> GROUP BY ?P 
> 
> It seems that GROUP_CONCAT in SQL dialects also has an ORDER BY clause, as e.g. a quick google search reveals for MySQL [1].
> 
> Steve, do you think that would be a big deal to add?
> Others?
> 
> Axel
> 
> P.S.: I thought briefly about not only allowing "ASC"|"DESC" but an arbitrary ORDER BY expression, however, that admittedly seems not 
> to go well with the current Aggregation() semantics definition, I am afraid...
> 
> 
> 1. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/group-by-functions.html#function_group-concat

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