[PATCH] Allow star syntax in GROUP BY, as a shorthand for all table columns
Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
From: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-08T16:57:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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- 0001-Allow-star-syntax-in-GROUP-BY-as-a-shorthand-for-all.patch (text/x-patch) patch 0001
Hi, This patch enables the syntax "GROUP BY tablename.*" in cases where earlier you'd get the error "field must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function" I've often needed to write queries like this: SELECT a.x, a.y, a.z, sum(b.w) FROM a JOIN b USING (a_id) GROUP BY a.x, a.y, a.z; Now this becomes: SELECT a.x, a.y, a.z, sum(b.w) FROM a JOIN b USING (a_id) GROUP BY a.*; The patch is so trivial that I'm wondering why it hasn't been implemented before. I couldn't think of any assumptions being broken by using row comparison instead of comparing each field separately. But maybe I'm missing something. If this patch looks reasonable, I guess the obvious next step is to expand the "a.*" reference to the table's primary key columns and fill in context->func_grouped_rels Regards, Marti