`join` aggregate doesn't handle long content
Author: N1ktoCreated Nov 28, 2025Updated Nov 28, 2025
Bug Report
Steps to Reproduce:
- Upload this simple (3 rows) CSV into perspective demo.
- Group by
group_by_colcolumn - Select
joinaggregate function fordata_colcolumn
Expected Result:
- No empty
data_colcell forgroup2 - Both
group1andgroup2aggregated strings should contain all joined values
Actual Result:
group1aggregate contains the first row value only, all following rows (only one in provided sample) were skippedgroup2has empty cell.
Environment (browser):
@perspective-dev/client4.0.0, 3.8.0- Firefox Nightly 147.0a1 / Chrome 144.0.7525.0 (Official Build) canary (arm64)
- macOS 26.1
Additional Context:
Seems to be related to this limit: https://github.com/perspective-dev/perspective/blob/dc85be7941bfeecc18d11be89dca63fe419edb2b/rust/perspective-server/cpp/perspective/src/cpp/sparse_tree.cpp#L38-L39
Would be great if that limit was either relaxed or configurable. I assume that perspective was targeted to fin-tech or other "numeric-content" applications where rows being joined are unlikely to contain more than 280 chars. However pespective is super powerful and versatile, so it can be used in many other applications where cells may contain much longer content and this limit simply makes it unusable as missing data is unacceptable.
Source: perspective-dev/perspective