Re: Nested select

Can you write the error message here?

--Imad
www.EnterpriseDB.com

On 11/6/06, Hubert Retif <hubert(dot)retif(at)i-netsoft(dot)ch> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am migrating my application from MySQL to Postgresql and have met
> following situation:
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> SELECT
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> (sum(sold_price)/(select sum(sold_price) from car_archive))*100 as CA_pcent,
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> reason_text
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> FROM car_archive
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> group by reason_text
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> order by CA_pcent desc
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> works perfectly in MySQL, but not in Postgresql. The problem seems to be the
> nested select which should deliver a sum of the whole table, but it does
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> If I replace this nested select with a fix value, then it works:
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> SELECT
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> (sum(sold_price)/(333))*100 as CA_pcent,
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> reason_text
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> FROM car_archive
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> group by reason_text
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> order by CA_pcent desc
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> Has someone a solution for that situation?
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> Thanks,
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> Hubert Retif