Re: Baffled by "Group By" Resolved and Thanks

From: "Matt Friedman" <matt(at)daart(dot)ca>
To: "PgSql General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Baffled by "Group By" Resolved and Thanks
Date: 2001-03-24 21:47:40
Message-ID: 000701c0b4ac$0d589e60$03284d18@mattq3h8budilr
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Yeah, it was right under my nose. Figured it out just before I got your
email.

Thank you.

Matt Friedman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matt Friedman" <matt(at)sprynewmedia(dot)com>
Cc: "PgSql General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Baffled by "Group By" - Please help!

> "Matt Friedman" <matt(at)daart(dot)ca> writes:
> > What am I missing? I'm not seeing why this query doesn't group
everything
> > and then return unique rows.
>
> Since you didn't show an example of the input and output, it's hard to
> tell what your gripe is ... but I'll venture that you didn't want to
> group by index.word_count. It doesn't make a lot of sense to group by
> something you are using as an aggregate input.
>
> regards, tom lane
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