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[jira] [Commented] (DRILL-5421) Allow Complex type as @Workspace variables for aggregate functions

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5421?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16699215#comment-16699215 ] 

Andrea Sella commented on DRILL-5421:
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Any news on this? I'd avoid starting using a Deprecated class to achieve something similar to array_agg().

> Allow Complex type as @Workspace variables for aggregate functions
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DRILL-5421
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5421
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Functions - Drill
>    Affects Versions: 1.10.0
>            Reporter: Manuel Aristaran
>            Priority: Major
>
> I'm trying to implement the equivalent of Postgres' {{array_agg()}} as a UDF in Drill. Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't seem to be possible. As per [the documentation|https://drill.apache.org/docs/developing-an-aggregate-function/]:
> {quote}
>     Do not use complex @Workspace variables.
>     You cannot allocate a Repeated* value or have a ComplexWriter in the @Workspace.
> {quote}
> With that restriction, it's not possible to keep the intermediate value of the resulting array during computation of the aggregation.



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