Re: 7.4 Wishlist

Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> > select id, sum(sum_col)||'/'||count(*) from table_name
> > group by id;
> >
> > or
> >
> > select table_name.id, sum(sum_col)||'/'||t2.count from table_name,
> > (select id, count(*) as count from table_name group by id) as t2 where
> > table_name.id=t2.id group by table_name.id,t2.count;
> >
>
> Give it up already, i was MAKING A POINT, not trying to make an
> optimized count(*) thing :)
> There are other examples that you cannot get around, that will be
> evaluated more than once when a local "user variable" would make it not
> need to.

Here's an even slimmer query that makes a var:

test=> select var1.* from (select 1) as var1;
?column?
----------
1
(1 row)

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