Re: FILTER for aggregates [was Re: Department of Redundancy Department: makeNode(FuncCall) division]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:10:25AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter escribió:
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:59:27PM +0100, Dean Rasheed wrote:
>
> > > In my testing of sub-queries in the FILTER clause (an extension to the
> > > spec), I was able to produce the following error:
> >
> > Per the spec,
> >
> > B) A <filter clause> shall not contain a <query expression>, a <window function>, or an outer reference.
>
> If this is not allowed, I think there should be a clearer error message.
> What Dean showed is an internal (not user-facing) error message.

Please find attached a patch which allows subqueries in the FILTER
clause and adds regression testing for same.

Cheers,
David.
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