Re: [HACKERS] HAVING clause and 6.3.2 release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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Subject Re: [HACKERS] HAVING clause and 6.3.2 release
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980416014645.307C-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to HAVING clause and 6.3.2 release  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] HAVING clause and 6.3.2 release
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Attached is a list of bug reports for the HAVING clause.
>
> My question is, "Do we disable the HAVING clause for 6.3.2?"  The bugs
> are serious and cause crashes.
>
> I have looked at the issues, and the basic problems are that the
> aggregate logic expects to be attached to an actual field in the target
> list, and the HAVING clause does not properly handle non-aggregate
> retrictions, nor does it prevent them.  COUNT(*) uses the oid of the
> first FROM table, so that is a problem too.
>
> I have looked at the code, but don't have time to fix it before Friday,
> and holding up the release for that would be silly.  I don't think there
> is one thing wrong, but several places that have to be change to get
> this working solidly.
>
> Do we disable it?

    Yes...but disabling means that it *will not* be available until
v6.4...no v6.3.3 :)



Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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