Hi,
This patch enables the syntax "GROUP BY tablename.*" in cases where
earlier you'd get the error "field must appear in the GROUP BY clause
or be used in an aggregate function"
I've often needed to write queries like this:
SELECT a.x, a.y, a.z, sum(b.w) FROM a JOIN b USING (a_id) GROUP BY
a.x, a.y, a.z;
Now this becomes:
SELECT a.x, a.y, a.z, sum(b.w) FROM a JOIN b USING (a_id) GROUP BY a.*;
The patch is so trivial that I'm wondering why it hasn't been
implemented before. I couldn't think of any assumptions being broken
by using row comparison instead of comparing each field separately.
But maybe I'm missing something.
If this patch looks reasonable, I guess the obvious next step is to
expand the "a.*" reference to the table's primary key columns and fill
in context->func_grouped_rels
Regards,
Marti
