Wildcards in GROUP BY? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hello-

Is it possible to use wild cards in a GROUP BY statement?

ie: running the following query

SELECT a.*, COUNT(b.something)
FROM a, b
WHERE a.id=b.id
GROUP BY a.*;

returns the following message:
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "*"

If you cannot use wildcards in GROUP BY statements, is the only solution
to expand "a.*" to all its constituent parts?  Ugh.

main_v0_8=# select version();
                            version
-------------------------------------------------------------
  PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
(1 row)


Thanks, Jon

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  Jon Lapham
  Extracta Moléculas Naturais, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  email: lapham@extracta.com.br      web: http://www.extracta.com.br/
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