From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Anthony Molinaro <amolinaro@wgen.net>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Rick Schumeyer <rschumeyer@ieee.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:16:40 -0400
Message-ID: <25082.1129231000@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Anthony Molinaro" <amolinaro@wgen.net> writes:
> An additional gripe is that this isn't a good feature (standard or not).
> Oracle doesn't do it. Db2 doesn't do it.
You sure about that? It's hard to believe that the SQL committee would
put a feature into the spec that neither Oracle nor IBM intended to
implement. Those two pretty much control the committee after all ...
regards, tom lane
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