SUM() and GROUP BY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain
Subject SUM() and GROUP BY
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Msg-id m100GHQ-0000bpC@druid.net
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] SUM() and GROUP BY  (jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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Does this seem right?

druid=> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM acctrans;
count
-----   0
(1 row)

druid=> SELECT client_id, SUM(tramount) FROM acctrans GROUP BY client_id;
client_id|sum
---------+---        |   
(1 row)

If there are no rows in the table then shouldn't the result be no rows
when GROUP BY is used?  Further, What about this?

druid=> SELECT SUM(tramount) FROM acctrans;
sum
---  
(1 row)

Shouldn't that be 0.00?

What will the NUMERIC or DECIMAL types do in these situations?  It
looks like INTEGER has the same behaviour as MONEY (which tramount is.)

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