Re: [HACKERS] GROUP BY fixes committed

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] GROUP BY fixes committed
Date: 1999-05-10 18:33:54
Message-ID: 199905101833.OAA04816@candle.pha.pa.us
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> ACCEPTED:
> insert into si_tmpVerifyAccountBalances select invoiceid+3,
> memberid, 1, TotShippingHandling from InvoiceLineDetails
> group by invoiceid+3, memberid;
>
> NOT ACCEPTED:
> insert into si_tmpVerifyAccountBalances select invoiceid+3,
> memberid, 1, TotShippingHandling from InvoiceLineDetails
> group by invoiceid+3, memberid, TotShippingHandling;
>
> Probably error check is including GROUP BY targets in its count of
> things-to-be-inserted :-(. The behavior is quite inconsistent though.
> Also, why doesn't the first example get rejected, since
> TotShippingHandling is neither GROUP BY nor an aggregate??

Yikes. We check to make sure all non-agg columns are referenced in
GROUP BY, but not that all GROUP BY's are in target list, perhaps?

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