Re: [HACKERS] Views on aggregates - need assistence - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vadim B. Mikheev
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Views on aggregates - need assistence
Date
Msg-id 34F23085.E69CCD06@sable.krasnoyarsk.su
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In response to Views on aggregates - need assistence  (jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Views on aggregates - need assistence  (Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>)
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Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>     the  first step on views using aggregate was successful.  But
>     I don't know enough about GROUP BY, HAVING and all the  other
>     stuff.  So I need someone to assist me in getting the rewrite
>     system to handle this kind of views properly.

...

>
>     Before  going into details and fixing more things I must have
>     some different view definitions and table settings (including
>     nested  views  with and without aggregates) and what they are
>     expected to output!
>
>     And please some complicated select statements building  joins
>     from tables and the views with GROUP BY etc. too if possible.

create view v as select x, sum(y) as sy from A group by x;
select * from B, V where B.z = V.sy;

- how can we handle this (aggregates in WHERE) ?
It seems that current VIEW implementation using RULEs has
unresolvable problems :(

Vadim

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