Re: Problem with view

Jan Wieck <wieck@debis.com>

From: wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
To: Wenjin Zheng <wenjin.zheng@lsbc.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-04-03T21:10:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I have got another problem.  I have a table(table tempOne) that has two
> fields, seqid(int) and phredscore(int).  They are one to many relationship,
> e.g. one seqid has many phredscore.  I would like to get the row that has
> the max(phredscore).  So I first created a view as follow:
> "create view maxphred as select seqid, max(phredscore) as phredscore from
> tempOne group by seqid;"

    Views  are  known to have severe problems with aggregates and
    grouping.  And once again  these  are  problems  we  want  to
    tackle with the parse-/querytree overhaul.

    Oh man - this is one of the most important things I see.


Jan

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