I have the following query which gets generated dynamically from
a user-interface, particularly the subselect in the target list.
I cannot rewrite the subselect in the target list as a normal
join expression, since additional target list expressions may be
specified by the user. The below is just an example:
SELECT
SUM(p.qty),
(SELECT date_trunc('day', sales.active)
FROM sales
WHERE sales.purchase = p.purchase) AS field1
FROM purchases p
GROUP BY field1;
This works fine, unless the subselect in the target list doesn't
match any rows, in which case NULL is the result of the
subselect. I would like to further qualify the query with a
HAVING clause, but PostgreSQL doesn't like column aliases nor
ordinal values in the HAVING clause:
SELECT
SUM(p.qty),
(SELECT date_trunc('day', sales.active)
FROM sales
WHERE sales.purchase = p.purchase) AS field1
FROM purchases p
GROUP BY field1
HAVING (field1 IS NOT NULL);
ERROR: Attribute 'field1' not found
This is PostgreSQL 7.2.1. Any tips?
Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com
