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Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: backend closes with aggregate functions on views

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-03-17T16:15:30Z

> It seems the pg backend disconnects a connection when a user
> performs an aggregate function on a view. In one instance, doing
> so killed the backend.  I can't seem to duplicate killing the
> backend, but is this proper behavior for the backend?
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Test Case:  ---------- create table a (b char(20) not null, c
> char(10) not null, d int, primary key (b, c)); create view d as
> select b,sum(d) from a group by b; select max(sum) from d;

This is a know problem.  It is on the TODO list.

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