Concat GROUP BY in Vertica SQL

Question

I need to get a comma separated list of ids as a field for a messy third party api :s This is a simplified version of what I am trying to achieve.

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Answer 1

Have look at Concatenate UDAF in vertica examples which comes with vertica installation that's the mysql equivalent. you can just directly install it.

more /opt/vertica/sdk/examples/AggregateFunctions/Concatenate.cpp

-- Shell comppile
cd /opt/vertica/sdk/examples/AggregateFunctions/
g++ -D HAVE_LONG_INT_64 -I /opt/vertica/sdk/include -Wall -shared -Wno-unused-value \
-fPIC -o Concatenate.so Concatenate.cpp /opt/vertica/sdk/include/Vertica.cpp

-- Create LIBRARY
CREATE LIBRARY AggregateFunctionsConcatenate AS '/opt/vertica/sdk/examples/AggregateFunctions/Concatenate.so';
CREATE AGGREGATE FUNCTION agg_group_concat AS LANGUAGE 'C++' NAME 'ConcatenateFactory' LIBRARY AggregateFunctionsConcatenate;


in the Concatenate.cpp
replace : input_len*10
with : 65000

there is two place you have to replace this value in the code.

65000 is the max length you can get with varchar. and since vertica doesnt uses all of 65000 for the values smaller than 65000 character you are fine.