Re: Problem with view

From: wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: Wenjin Zheng <wenjin(dot)zheng(at)lsbc(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem with view
Date: 2000-04-03 21:10:36
Message-ID: m12cE7I-0003kGC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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> I have got another problem. I have a table(table tempOne) that has two
> fields, seqid(int) and phredscore(int). They are one to many relationship,
> e.g. one seqid has many phredscore. I would like to get the row that has
> the max(phredscore). So I first created a view as follow:
> "create view maxphred as select seqid, max(phredscore) as phredscore from
> tempOne group by seqid;"

Views are known to have severe problems with aggregates and
grouping. And once again these are problems we want to
tackle with the parse-/querytree overhaul.

Oh man - this is one of the most important things I see.

Jan

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