Re: [SQL] ERROR: ExecEvalAggref: no aggregates in thisexpressioncontext

2000-07-05 Thread Paul McGarry
Tom Lane wrote: > View? Hmm, we know that views involving GROUP BY or aggregates > don't work very well. We hope to fix those problems in 7.2, but > right now there's probably not much that can be done about it. > I'd recommend avoiding views that use those features for now. Yes, I've just dis

Re: [SQL] ERROR: ExecEvalAggref: no aggregates in thisexpressioncontext

2000-07-05 Thread Paul McGarry
Paul McGarry wrote: > If I do a 'SELECT * from view_name' and get 8 rows of data, when I > do a 'SELECT count(*) from view_name' I get 8 rows of the > number 1 returned. I've attached a script which will generate a bunch of tables and a view then do a select * and select count(*) on that view.

Re: [SQL] ERROR: ExecEvalAggref: no aggregates in thisexpressioncontext

2000-07-05 Thread Paul McGarry
Hi Tom, Tom Lane wrote: > > ERROR: ExecEvalAggref: no aggregates in this expression context > > Does it mean that there aren't any aggregate in the expression > > context when there should be. > Yup. ExecEvalAggref is supposed to fetch the result of a (previously > computed) aggregate function.