Re: [HACKERS] subquery syntax broken

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart)
Cc: vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su, hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] subquery syntax broken
Date: 1998-02-02 18:29:33
Message-ID: 199802021829.NAA15514@candle.pha.pa.us
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>
> > It's not the aggregates, it is the whole '= (subquery)' that is missing
> > from gram.y. I am adding it now.
>
> Right, and aggregates are the only way in general to get a singleton result from
> a subselect. OK, I forgot about "where y = (select 1)". Well, only _useful_
> way?? I'll bet I'm forgetting another one too...
>

Sometimes you have = (subselect) with one row, often with correlated
subqueries, but most often with aggregates.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us

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