Re: [HACKERS] Wishlist for next version: group by clause - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Hartwig
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Wishlist for next version: group by clause
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Msg-id 3586D537.57ABC1DF@insightdist.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Wishlist for next version: group by clause  (De Clarke <de@ucolick.org>)
Responses group by : syntactic example (sybase)  (De Clarke <de@ucolick.org>)
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Do you mean in a select statement?   Such as:

    SELECT func(date) as month, count(*) FROM foo GROUP BY month;

Or even:

    SELECT count(*) FROM foo GROUP BY func(date);

The first is supported.   The second would require some changes to the parser.

De Clarke wrote:

> I didn't realize PG could not do
>
>         group by [function on column]
>
> Ouch!
>




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