From: | "Anthony Molinaro" <amolinaro(at)wgen(dot)net> |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
Cc: | "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 19:06:36 |
Message-ID: | 3C6C2B281FD3E74C9F7C9D5B1EDA4582182621@wgexch01.wgenhq.net |
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Well...
An additional gripe is that this isn't a good feature (standard or not).
Oracle doesn't do it. Db2 doesn't do it. I strongly suggest you guys
don't
do it.
If you wanna do the optimizations under the covers, cool, but I can't
imagine how this would be useful other than for saving some typing...
Seems more trouble than it's worth and changes a concept that's tried
and true for many years.
Regards,
Anthony
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[mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:50 PM
To: Scott Marlowe
Cc: Greg Stark; Stephan Szabo; Rick Schumeyer; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause
>>>> In standard SQL you have to
>>>> write GROUP BY ... and list every single column you need from the
master
>>>> table.
This thread seems to have gone off on a tangent that depends on the
assumption that the above is a correct statement. It's not. It *was*
true, in SQL92, but SQL99 lets you omit unnecessary GROUP BY columns.
The gripe against mysql, I think, is that they don't enforce the
conditions that guarantee the query will give a unique result.
The gripe against postgres is that we haven't implemented the SQL99
semantics yet.
regards, tom lane
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