Re: Query help

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: John W Higgins <wishdev(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Query help
Date: 2019-01-01 20:05:41
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZ=YT0AaNR94er-LmVb_4Oj0q_KyX=eUsD7usWEAg00SQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 1/1/19 11:26 AM, John W Higgins wrote:
>>
>> with accounts_over_total as (
>> select accountid from transactions where sum(amount) >= 50 group by
>> accountid)
>>
>
> Unfortunately there is a hitch in the above:(
>
> select p_item_no from projection where sum(qty) > 100 group by(p_item_no);
> ERROR: aggregate functions are not allowed in WHERE
>

Which is where the HAVING clause comes in. It filters out groups based on
an expression containing an aggregate function.

David J.

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