| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | David Christensen <david(at)pgguru(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL |
| Date: | 2024-07-23 15:57:51 |
| Message-ID: | 39aca36b0e570a9f53dc1740f0de81ddffae0f1d.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 08:37 -0500, David Christensen wrote:
> My intention here was to basically be a shorthand for "group by
> specified non-aggregate fields in the select list". Perhaps I'm not
> being creative enough, but what is the interpretation/use case for
> anything else? :-)
I am somewhat against this feature.
It is too much magic for my taste.
It might be handy for interactive use, but I would frown at an application
that uses code like that, much like I'd frown at "SELECT *" in application code.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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