Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] Group/Order by not in target - Was [NEW ODBC DRIVER]

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: sferac@bo.nettuno.it (Jose' Soares Da Silva)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
Date: 1998-05-15T13:51:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> On Mon, 11 May 1998, David Hartwig wrote:
> 
>  
> > It is not very difficult to produce this problem in MS Access 97;  I
> > expect my users to beat me up pretty good on this issue.  Thus, I plan to
> > look into making the fix in the backend myself.  Conceptually it does not
> > seem too difficult.
> > 
> > 1. Add a hidden attribute to the target node structure.
> > 
> > 2. Modify the parser/analyzer to add any attributes in the GROUP/ORDER BY
> > clause that are missing from the target list, to the target list with the
> > hidden attribute set.
> This would be a great enhancement! 
> SQL92 specifies that columns in the ORDER BY must appear in the
> SELECT clause, but this limitation has no sense, indeed many databases
> already implement this enhancement.
> Go for it!

There already is code in the backend for Junk fields to be removed.  Not
sure what it does, though.
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