Antti Linno <alligator@all.ee> wrote:
> I have table job, and I want to select data from it, grouping by
> workgroups. When I use
> select id,name from job where workgroup='top leaders' AND ... group by
> workgroup;
> When I want to group, I get
> ERROR: Illegal use of aggregates or non-group column in target list
> I'm confused, why does query work only with sum,min etc. alone in
> select.
>
> Antti
You can use GROUP BY only in conjunction with aggregat functions. Then you have to gruop by all attributes in the
targetlist, that are not aggregated.
Example:
select id,name, workgroup, count(*)
from job
where workgroup='top leaders' AND ...
group by id,name,workgroup;
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Gerhard
