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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Joseph Healy <j.healy@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: Group By Error Text
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Joe,

> ERROR:  Attribute drawing_register.jobno must be GROUPed or used in an
> aggregate function
>=20
> Is this correct? Getting rid of the error is easy:
>=20
> select jobno, count(jobno) from drawing_register group by jobno;
>=20
> I believe that jobno is being used in an aggregate function. Should a
> change be made to the error text?

Nope.  The error message is exactly correct.   If you didn't want to GROUP =
BY=20
jobno, then what you actually wanted to query was:

SELECT count(jobno) FROM drawing_register;

--=20
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco