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I want to limit string_agg result like:-

SELECT string_agg(name, ',') FROM table_a WHERE 'condition' LIMIT 5

But the limit part is not working. Is there any other syntax for limiting string_agg results.

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    This will limit the result, since aggregate will generate only one row (you don't have any group by clause) there will be nothing to limit. Commented Nov 6, 2017 at 8:19

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Assuming you only want to aggregate 5 rows:

SELECT string_agg(name, ',') 
FROM (
  select name 
  from table_a 
  WHERE ... 
  LIMIT 5
) t
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