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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: David Christensen <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:29:35 -0400
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"David G. Johnston" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 1:55 PM David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I see that there'd been some chatter but not a lot of discussion about
>> a GROUP BY ALL feature/functionality.  There certainly is utility in
>> such a construct IMHO.

> I strongly dislike adding this feature.  I'd only consider supporting it if
> it was part of the SQL standard.

Yeah ... my recollection is that we already rejected this idea.
If you want to re-litigate that, "throwing this out there" is
not a sufficient argument.

(Personally, I'd wonder exactly what ALL is quantified over: the
whole output of the FROM clause, or only columns mentioned in the
SELECT tlist, or what? And why that choice rather than another?)

			regards, tom lane






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