At 14:35 9/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>so the construct is definitely not SQL-compliant. Maybe we should just
>forbid it. However, if you are joining against another table (which
>itself is not an SQL feature) then it seems like there is some potential
>use in it. What do people think of my implicit-GROUP-BY-ctid idea?
>That would basically say that the aggregate is computed over all the
>tuples that join to a single target tuple.
Sounds perfect to me...
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