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From: Suller András <suan2@freemail.hu>
To: Freddy Villalba Arias <fvillalba@madrid.bilbomatica.es>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: COUNT on a DISTINCT query
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 16:19:24 +0200
Message-ID: <409B9AEC.1080302@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92EFB0BEDD24E9419E2CD9A2BD35DAEA0438A7@bmsrv001.madrid.bilbomatica.es>
References: <92EFB0BEDD24E9419E2CD9A2BD35DAEA0438A7@bmsrv001.madrid.bilbomatica.es>

>  SELECT COUNT(xxx.*) FROM (<the query above>) xxx

This cause an error for me:
ERROR:  cannot pass result of subquery or join "xxx" to a function

Try this instead:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (<the query above>) xxx
It worked for me.
Regards,
Suller Andras




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