From: | Mike Mascari <mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | sam smith <sam_smith20(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] "group, by", problem, when, combined, with, "insert, into" |
Date: | 1999-08-05 09:35:23 |
Message-ID: | 19990805093523.3067.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com |
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I believe previous versions actually allowed you
to (if memory serves), but the developers currently
disabled this statement because it could sometimes
cause incorrect results. At:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/todo.html
you'll find several references to this problem:
* -INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY groups by target
columns not source columns
* redesign INSERT ... SELECT to have two levels of
target list
Hope that helps,
Mike Mascari (mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com)
--- sam smith <sam_smith20(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'm pretty new to postgres and I'm finding soemthing
> baffling. I can
> perform the following query without a problem -
>
> select loser,count(*) from moves group by loser;
>
> but when i combine it with an insert into -
> insert into losses select loser,count(*) from moves
> group by loser;
>
> I get
> ERROR: Illegal use of aggregates or non-group
> column in target list
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is it not possible to
> combine insert into and
> group by.
>
> I'm using PostgreSQL 6.5.0
>
> Cheers
> Sam
>
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