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Allow simple GROUP BY clauses
LocustDB currently doesn't support explicit GROUP BY clauses, and instead implicitly performs GROUP BY of any non-aggregation expression if your query contains an aggregation expression. So e.g. SELECT COUNT(1), page, date FROM pageviews
is implicitly transformed into SELECT COUNT(1), page, date FROM pageviews GROUP BY page, date
. There's no fundamental reason for this other than that it seemed more elegant and I didn't want to type redundant GROUP BY
clauses. I think it would be a good idea to allow normal GROUP BY
clauses and perhaps even disallow the (non-standard) shorthand. The hard part here is checking that the GROUP BY
clause is compatible with the projections and different databases seem to vary in the level of cleverness supported for this. As a first step, LocustDB should support GROUP BY
clauses expressions where corresponding SELECT
expressions are completely identical.
A more expressive version would also allow projections to be functions of the GROUP BY
columns, e.g. queries like SELECT COUNT(1), page, SUBSTRING(date, 0, 4) FROM pageviews GROUP BY page, date
.