Re: Draft response to GK-1

On 2011-02-14, at 09:34, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> 
> On 14/02/11 09:17, Axel Polleres wrote:
>> Hi steve,
>> 
>> On 8 Feb 2011, at 16:31, Steve Harris wrote:
>> 
> ...
>> 
>>> He raises a reasonable point about the interaction of ORDER BY,
>>> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query-1.1/rq25.xml#convertSolMod
>>> could be construed as meaning that ORDER is preserved in aggregate
>>> operations, though the algebra does say it's operations on
>>> multisets.
>> 
>> Is this something that needs to be discussed? Could an alternative
>> behaviour to the current one be achieved with reasonable effort and
>> the time/resources we still have?
> 
> This relates to Jeen's point about GROUP_CONCAT and ORDER BY
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2011Feb/0004.html
> 
> Maybe we should add "; ORDER BY" to GROUP_CONCAT.

; ORDER BY (and ; LIMIT) would be very useful, but on the other hand, I'm thinking that aggregates are quite complex as it is.

- Steve

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