using DISTINCT with complex types depends on an OPERATOR CLASS for B-Tree-Indexes i found out. the error msg 'could not identify an equality operator for type' was confusing.
i post this complete example. maybe someone else is running in this problem too. regards, thomas! CREATE TYPE named_value AS ( value_name text, value numeric ); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION named_value_lt(named_value, named_value) RETURNS boolean AS $f$ SELECT $1.value_name < $2.value_name; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION named_value_lt_eq(named_value, named_value) RETURNS boolean AS $f$ SELECT $1.value_name <= $2.value_name; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION named_value_eq(named_value, named_value) RETURNS boolean AS $f$ SELECT $1.value_name = $2.value_name; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION named_value_gt_eq(named_value, named_value) RETURNS boolean AS $f$ SELECT $1.value_name >= $2.value_name; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION named_value_gt(named_value, named_value) RETURNS boolean AS $f$ SELECT $1.value_name > $2.value_name; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION named_value_cmp(named_value, named_value) RETURNS integer AS $f$ SELECT CASE WHEN $1.value_name < $2.value_name THEN -1 WHEN $1.value_name = $2.value_name THEN 0 ELSE 1 END; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OPERATOR < ( PROCEDURE = named_value_lt, LEFTARG = named_value, RIGHTARG = named_value, COMMUTATOR = > ); CREATE OPERATOR <= ( PROCEDURE = named_value_lt_eq, LEFTARG = named_value, RIGHTARG = named_value, COMMUTATOR = >= ); CREATE OPERATOR = ( PROCEDURE = named_value_eq, LEFTARG = named_value, RIGHTARG = named_value, COMMUTATOR = = ); CREATE OPERATOR >= ( PROCEDURE = named_value_gt_eq, LEFTARG = named_value, RIGHTARG = named_value, COMMUTATOR = <= ); CREATE OPERATOR > ( PROCEDURE = named_value_gt, LEFTARG = named_value, RIGHTARG = named_value, COMMUTATOR = < ); CREATE OPERATOR CLASS named_value_ops DEFAULT FOR TYPE named_value USING btree AS OPERATOR 1 < , OPERATOR 2 <= , OPERATOR 3 = , OPERATOR 4 >= , OPERATOR 5 > , FUNCTION 1 named_value_cmp(named_value, named_value); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sum_final(named_value) RETURNS numeric AS $f$ SELECT $1.value; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sum_accum(named_value, named_value) RETURNS named_value AS $f$ SELECT ROW('', $1.value + $2.value)::named_value; $f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE AGGREGATE sum( BASETYPE = named_value, SFUNC = sum_accum, STYPE = named_value, FINALFUNC = sum_final, INITCOND = "('',0)" ); -- result is FALSE SELECT ROW('foo', 5)::named_value = ROW('bar', 5)::named_value; -- result is TRUE SELECT ROW('foo', 5)::named_value = ROW('foo', 5)::named_value; -- result is TRUE SELECT ROW('foo', 4)::named_value = ROW('foo', 5)::named_value; -- works for me SELECT sum(ROW(name, wert)::named_value) FROM table1; -- now works for me too SELECT DISTINCT ROW(wert, name)::named_value FROM table1; SELECT sum(DISTINCT ROW(name, wert)::named_value) FROM table1; ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly