- From: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:07:05 -0500
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, public-rdf-dawg@w3.org
On Dec 9, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Steve Harris wrote: >>> === 18.2.4.1 >>> >>> "If the GROUP BY keyword is used, or there is implicit grouping due to the use of aggregates in the projection..." >>> Is it possible to have an implicit grouping based on the use of aggregates in only the HAVING clause, and not the projection? >> >> Yes and no. >> >> Observation: if you have just "HAVING aggregate", then there is no possible legal SELECT clause. >> >> Only GROUP BY variables and aggregates would be legal >> There aren't any GROUP BY variables and you are askign about none in projection. >> >> SELECT * is illegal if there is an aggregate (implicit group). >> >> So I hope the answer is "yes" and it just falls out there are no legal queries. >> >> @@Steve? > > Yes, I'm not sure if it's worth adding something about HAVING making grouping implicit or not. Steve, Did you see my followup to Andy about this? I said: """ It's a bit perverse, but wouldn't "SELECT (1 AS ?one)" be a valid projection for such a query? """ This might be a corner case, but I think it's possible, and so should probably be mentioned (or "the use of aggregates in the projection" simply generalized by removing "in the projection"). thanks, .greg
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