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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: David Christensen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:54:18 +0200
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On 26.09.25 16:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>> The initially proposed patch appears to have the right idea overall.
>> But it does not handle more complex cases like
>>       SELECT a, SUM(b)+a FROM t1 GROUP BY ALL;
> 
>> (For explanation:  GROUP BY ALL expands to all select list entries that
>> do not contain aggregates.  So the above would expand to
>>       SELECT a, SUM(b)+a FROM t1 GROUP BY a;
>> which should then be rejected based on the existing rules.)
> 
> I thought I understood this definition, up till your last
> comment.  What's invalid about that expanded query?
> 
> regression=# create table t1 (a int, b int);
> CREATE TABLE
> regression=# SELECT a, SUM(b)+a FROM t1 GROUP BY a;
>   a | ?column?
> ---+----------
> (0 rows)

This was a sloppy example.  Here is a better one:

     create table t1 (a int, b int, c int);

     select a, sum(b)+c from t1 group by all;

This is equivalent to

     select a, sum(b)+c from t1 group by a;

which would be rejected as

     ERROR:  column "t1.c" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used
     in an aggregate function

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