Re: Select .. Having vs computer fields

From: Antonio Fiol Bonnín <fiol(at)w3ping(dot)com>
To: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)natserv(dot)com>
Cc: Javier Dussaillant <ashkar(at)vrweb(dot)cl>, pgsql General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Select .. Having vs computer fields
Date: 2001-12-13 15:37:25
Message-ID: 3C18CB35.8070209@w3ping.com
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Francisco Reyes wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Javier Dussaillant wrote:
>
>>At 12:54 PM 12/12/2001 -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>>
>>>Can use use computed fields on the "having" part of select?
>>>I have tried:
>>>select a,b, count(*) as dups_count from some_table having dups_count > 1;
>>>
>>>and it gives me the error "Attribute 'dups_count' not found"
>>>
>>You have to GROUP BY in order to use HAVING. For example:
>>
>>SELECT a,b, count(*) as dups_count FROM some_table GROUP BY a,b HAVING
>>dups_count > 1;
>>
>
>My mistake for not including it in the example. I did use Group By.
>
Rewrite as

SELECT a,b, count(*) as dups_count FROM some_table GROUP BY a,b HAVING
count(*) > 1;

Antonio

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