Re: [HACKERS] Views on aggregates - need assistence

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>
Cc: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 1998-02-24T06:49:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> >     Before  going into details and fixing more things I must have
> >     some different view definitions and table settings (including
> >     nested  views  with and without aggregates) and what they are
> >     expected to output!
> >
> >     And please some complicated select statements building  joins
> >     from tables and the views with GROUP BY etc. too if possible.
>
> create view v as select x, sum(y) as sy from A group by x;
> select * from B, V where B.z = V.sy;
>
> - how can we handle this (aggregates in WHERE) ?
> It seems that current VIEW implementation using RULEs has
> unresolvable problems :(

Well, there may be a subset of the possible cases which could work?