Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> wrote:

> And for when this might be useful, the syntax for it already exists, although a spurious error message is generated:
>
> odyssey=> select (uw_term).*, count(*) from uw_term group by uw_term;
> ERROR:  column "uw_term.term_id" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function
> LINE 1: select (uw_term).*, count(*) from uw_term group by uw_term;
>                 ^

This is with my patch, or existing postgres?  Grouping by record is
not actually what this patch is trying to do, so perhaps there is some
ambiguity; this is intended to GROUP BY any select item that is not an
aggregate function.