Hi

I asked the following question at gis.stackexchange.com, but had no luck so 
far. Can any of you guys help?

Ian

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/24941/using-group-by-to-set-a-postgis-datasource-using-qgis-python-api

         
I am writing a QGIS Plugin and wish to obtain data from a  PostGIS table using 
the Group By clause using something like the  following code: 
  uri = QgsDataSourceURI()
uri.setConnection('localhost', '5432', 'postgis', 'postgres', 'xxx')
Query="select param_id, st_union(the_geom) as the_geom from myTable group by 
param_id"
uri.setDataSource('', '(%s)' % postGisQuery, "the_geom",'','gid')
vlayer1 = QgsVectorLayer(uri.uri(), 'testlayer1', "postgres") 
  
This gives the error "No key field for query given." because it is  looking for 
the gid key field. But if gid was put in the select  statement of the Query, we 
won't get aggregated rows, just distinct  rows. If I try an aggregation 
function on gid, I get the same error. If I  try aliasing the aggregate, I get 
an "Erroneous query" error (even count(gid) as gid), same as if I put 
'param_id' as the key field in setDataSource, because 'param_id' is not a 
primary key, I guess. 
  
In this case, forcing the key field in the uri seems to make the  group by 
clause useless. Is there another workaround I haven't thought  of or is this 
the expected behaviour?
      



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