GROUP BY or alternative means to group

From: Alexander Reichstadt <lxr(at)mac(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: GROUP BY or alternative means to group
Date: 2012-03-12 19:35:30
Message-ID: 3C1A86F1-347F-4E6E-A8E2-F34CE05F32F1@mac.com
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Hi,

the following statement worked on mysql but gives me an error on postgres:

column "addresses.address1" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function

I guess I am doing something wrong. I read the web answers, but none of them seem to meet my needs:

SELECT companies.id,companies.name,companies.organizationkind,addresses.address1,addresses.address2,addresses.city,addresses.zip FROM companies JOIN addresses_reference ON companies.id=addresses_reference.refid_companies LEFT JOIN addresses ON addresses_reference.refid_addresses=addresses.id GROUP BY companies.id;

What I did now was create a view based on above statement but without grouping. This returns a list with non-distinct values for all companies that have more than one address, which is correct. But in some cases I only need one address and the problem is that I cannot use distinct.

I wanted to have some way to display a companies list that only gives me the first stored addresses related, and disregard any further addresses.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks
Alex

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