Re: [HACKERS] We are not following the spec for HAVING without GROUP BY

Mark Shewmaker <mark@primefactor.com>

From: Mark Shewmaker <mark@primefactor.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-03-10T22:42:07Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:44:50PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Would those of you with access to other DBMSes try this:
> 
> create table tab (col integer);
> select 1 from tab having 1=0;
> select 1 from tab having 1=1;
> insert into tab values(1);
> insert into tab values(2);
> select 1 from tab having 1=0;
> select 1 from tab having 1=1;
> 
> I claim that a SQL-conformant database will return 0, 1, 0, and 1 rows
> from the 4 selects --- that is, the contents of tab make no difference
> at all.

Sybase ASE version 12.5.2 returns 0, 0, 0, and 1 rows.

A plain "select 1 from tab" returns zero rows when tab is empty.

-- 
Mark Shewmaker
mark@primefactor.com