On 29-Jan-2000 Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Hi there,
> and query:
> discovery=> select count(*) from hits group by count;
> ERROR: Aggregates not allowed in GROUP BY clause
>
> There's easy workaround :
> discovery=> select count(*) as qq from hits group by count;
> but I'm curious is this a valid query ?
> Last snapshot also behave like 6.5.3
>
>
> Another question:
> discovery=> select count(*) as qqq,* from hits group by last_access;
> produces error:
> ERROR: Illegal use of aggregates or non-group column in target list
AFAIK, MS SQL, Sybase and Informix have the same restrictions, because using all fields in query with aggregates and
grouping is meaningless. Order of fields in group by clause also significant.
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