Re: retrieve grouping sets/rollup rows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From James Keener
Subject Re: retrieve grouping sets/rollup rows
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Msg-id 56E623D9.9090306@jimkeener.com
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In response to Re: retrieve grouping sets/rollup rows  (James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com>)
Responses Re: retrieve grouping sets/rollup rows  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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It just dawned on me that you may note have meant having them in a
specific sequence in the result set.  Even still, I think it's much more
clear being explicit with what rows are included and which aren't.

Jim

On 03/13/2016 10:12 PM, James Keener wrote:
> Why? You're already provided with this information: NULL fields are not
> being used in the grouping set for the row. Moreover, it would seem to
> be an implementation- and run-time- dependent value, as there is no
> reason group by grouping set (a,b), (c,d) couldn't be executed in
> written order, or (c,d) first depending on a lot of things.
>
> Forcing the implementation to conform to a certain way of doing things
> is asking for someone to ask why a certain optimization isn't being
> performed later on.
>
> My $0.02.
>
> Jim
>
> On 03/13/2016 10:07 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
>> It would help if the resultset has some param to mark which is which
>> with the grouping sets index.
>> for example, the results for (a,b,c,d) would be marked as for index =0,
>> (b,c,d) would be index=1
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com
>> <mailto:jim@jimkeener.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Do you want to know if a row is from the (a,b) or (c,d) group?  All rows
>>     will contain (a,b,c,d) but (a,b) will be NULL for the (c,d) grouping
>>     sets, and vice-versa.
>>
>>     Jim
>>
>>     On 03/13/2016 09:45 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
>>     > Hello:
>>     >
>>     > With JDBC, how can I tell which row is for which grouping sets or
>>     rollup
>>     > using result sets
>>     >
>>     > Thanks
>>     >
>>     >
>>
>>


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