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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: David Christensen <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:57:51 +0200
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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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