Re: [HACKERS] SUM() and GROUP BY

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От Thomas G. Lockhart
Тема Re: [HACKERS] SUM() and GROUP BY
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Msg-id 369D8A76.99B4A178@alumni.caltech.edu
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Ответ на Re: [HACKERS] SUM() and GROUP BY  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Ответы Re: [HACKERS] SUM() and GROUP BY  ("D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>)
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> I suppose you could argue that this is consistent with cases 2 and 3,
> in a weird way, but it's certainly not the way I'd expect it to work.
> If there are no groups created by GROUP BY, then AVG should never be
> invoked at all, therefore there should be no rows returned.

Agreed.

> So, again I agree with D'Arcy.

I'm missing something. Is there another issue for GROUP BY for which we
don't have a consensus? An aggregate on an entire column can return
NULL, and aggregates on columns with GROUP BY columns of NULL should
not.

> But I'm not the one who might have
> to try to fix this...

And why not? :)
                   - Tom


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