Odd subselect in target list behavior WRT aggregation

Hello. I have some code which generates subselects in the target list of a query and then aggregates the results. The code allows the user to determine the attributes of the aggregation. If the user chooses to aggregate on the same value twice, I get the "Sub-SELECT" error. If the user chooses a different second attribute of aggregation, no error occurs. Is that correct behavior? The only different between Query #1 and Query #2 is that the second subselect in the target list of Query #2 aggregates on the 'day' of a sale as opposed to the 'hour':

Query #1
--------

SELECT SUM(p.dstqty) as agg,
(SELECT date_trunc('hour', sales.active)
FROM sales
WHERE p.purchase = sales.purchase) as field1,
(SELECT date_trunc('hour', sales.active)
FROM sales
WHERE p.purchase = sales.purchase) as field2

FROM purchases p
WHERE ...
GROUP BY 2,3;

ERROR: Sub-SELECT uses un-GROUPed attribute p.purchase from outer query

Query #2
--------

SELECT SUM(p.dstqty) as agg,
(SELECT date_trunc('hour', sales.active)
FROM sales
WHERE p.purchase = sales.purchase) as field1,
(SELECT date_trunc('day', sales.active)
FROM sales WHERE p.purchase = sales.purchase) as field2

FROM purchases p
WHERE ...
GROUP BY 2,3;

agg | field1 | field2
--------+------------------------+------------------------
1.0000 | 2002-12-27 18:00:00-05 | 2002-12-27 00:00:00-05

Any help or instruction would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com