Re: NOT HAVING clause?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: NOT HAVING clause?
Date: 2006-01-24 15:28:21
Message-ID: 20060124072516.B27682@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Alban Hertroys wrote:

> This is sort of a feature request, I suppose. I solved my problem, but
> "NOT HAVING" seems to match better with the desired result or the way
> you phrase the question in your mind, if that makes any sense...

One problem is that HAVING really works on entire groups at a time
(including aggregated data for the group) not on pieces of the group.

However, I think one might be able to fake it with an array accumulating
aggregate like the one from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xaggr.html

and a query like:

SELECT object_id FROM image GROUP BY object_id HAVING
NOT(1 = ANY(array_accum(sort_order))).

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