Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The SQL is a little strange because the subquery tries to reference
> individual records from the outer query and then sum them.
> The more I look at it, I wonder if it is not just bad SQL.

It is bad SQL, but pre-7.1 Postgres failed to catch it.  Here's the
CVS log entry:

2000-09-25 14:09  tgl

        * src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c: System neglected to
        complain about ungrouped variables passed to sublinks when outer
        query contained aggregates but no GROUP clause.

Since you have a SUM(), the outer query is a grouped query, and so
references to the ungrouped h.* columns in the SELECT targetlist are
not well defined.  Lord knows what result you were getting from 7.0 ...

                        regards, tom lane

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