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From: Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Pgsql-sql@postgresql.org <Pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How to get a count() where column < ''?
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:43:16 +0100
Message-ID: <1133732596.5560.11.camel@Panoramix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051204133233.O57404@megazone.bigpanda.com>
References: <1133730772.5560.8.camel@Panoramix>
	<20051204133233.O57404@megazone.bigpanda.com>

Hi Stephan,

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 13:33 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > SELECT COUNT(customers.objectid) FROM prototype.customers,
> > prototype.addresses
> > WHERE
> > customers.contactaddress = addresses.objectid
> > AND
> > zipCode < '2716BN'
> > ORDER By zipCode, houseNumber

> In a non-grouped query like the above, I don't think that the order by is
> meaningful.  You only get one row back anyway without a group by, and
> there's no single zipCode or houseNumber to associate with the row.
> 
What do you mean by a non-grouped query? The query below gives the same
error:

SELECT zipcode, COUNT(*) FROM prototype.customers, prototype.addresses 
WHERE 
customers.contactaddress = addresses.objectid 
AND 
zipCode < '2716BN' 

-- 
Groeten,

Joost Kraaijeveld
Askesis B.V.
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e-mail: J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl
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