Re: pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Anthony Molinaro" <amolinaro(at)wgen(dot)net>
Cc: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, "Greg Stark" <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, "Rick Schumeyer" <rschumeyer(at)ieee(dot)org>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause
Date: 2005-10-13 19:16:40
Message-ID: 25082.1129231000@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Anthony Molinaro" <amolinaro(at)wgen(dot)net> writes:
> An additional gripe is that this isn't a good feature (standard or not).
> Oracle doesn't do it. Db2 doesn't do it.

You sure about that? It's hard to believe that the SQL committee would
put a feature into the spec that neither Oracle nor IBM intended to
implement. Those two pretty much control the committee after all ...

regards, tom lane

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