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Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Christensen <david@pgguru.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Date: 2025-09-29T20:58:37Z
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  1. Add GROUP BY ALL.

  2. Refactor to avoid code duplication in transformPLAssignStmt.

  3. Fix missed copying of groupDistinct in transformPLAssignStmt.

David Christensen <david@pgguru.net> writes:
>> Here is v7 with a stab at docs; fairly minimal at this point, but
>> touching the two areas that are likely to need adjusting.

I did some more word-smithing on the docs and pushed it.

>> When
>> adjusting the docs for sql-select, I noticed that the grammar also
>> supports `GROUP BY ALL <grouping_elements>`, so I also added a test to
>> ensure that this syntax is explicitly supported.

+1, can't hurt.

>> (It seems like it
>> works as-is without further grammar adjustments, but I was a little
>> worried when I first saw that fact... :D)

Bison would have been vocal about it if you'd introduced any
ambiguity.  Still, I didn't feel like looking around to see if we
already covered this syntax, and I agree it's close enough to being
an issue to be worth covering.

Thanks for the patch!

			regards, tom lane