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From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: GROUPING SETS and SQL standard
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In response to GROUPING SETS and SQL standard  (Phil Florent <philflorent@hotmail.com>)
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po 25. 11. 2019 v 20:32 odesílatel Phil Florent <philflorent@hotmail.com> napsal:
Hi,

We are still on the process to migrate our applications from proprietary RDBMS to PostgreSQL.

Here is a simple query executed on various systems (real query is different but this one does not need any data) :

Connected to:

Oracle Database 19c Standard Edition 2 Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production

Version 19.3.0.0.0

 

SQL> select count(*) from (select 1 from dual where 0=1 group by grouping sets(())) tmp;

 

  COUNT(*)

----------

         0

 

 

select @@version;

GO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                   ------------------------------------------------------

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-CU16) (KB4508218) - 14.0.3223.3 (X64)

        Jul 12 2019 17:43:08

        Copyright (C) 2017 Microsoft Corporation

        Developer Edition (64-bit) on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS)

 

select count(*) from (select 1 as c1 where 0=1 group by grouping sets(())) tmp;

GO

 

-----------

          0

 

(1 rows affected)

 

 

select version();

                                                    version

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PostgreSQL 11.5 (Debian 11.5-1+deb10u1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0, 64-bit

 

 

 

select count(*) from (select 1 from dual where 0=1 group by grouping sets(())) tmp;

count

-------

     1

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0 or 1, which behaviour conforms to the SQL standard ? We have a workaround and it's just informational.


This example has not too much sense - I am not sure if these corner cases are described by ANSI SQL standards.

If I add aggregate query to subquery - using grouping sets without aggregation function is strange, then Postgres result looks more correct

postgres=# select 1, count(*) from dual  group by grouping sets(());
┌──────────┬───────┐
│ ?column? │ count │
╞══════════╪═══════╡
│        1 │     1 │
└──────────┴───────┘
(1 row)

postgres=# select 1, count(*) from dual where false group by grouping sets(());
┌──────────┬───────┐
│ ?column? │ count │
╞══════════╪═══════╡
│        1 │     0 │
└──────────┴───────┘
(1 row)

SELECT count(*) from this should be one in both cases.

I am not sure, if standard describe using grouping sets without any aggregation function

Pavel


Regards,


Phil

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