> As you can see, that last query does not result in any error, however > col2 should not be selectable if not in the group by clause? > > Is this a feature, a known bug or an unknown one? If this is a > feature, is there a pragma to forbid such a syntax?
It's sort of a "feature" of SQLite. It's even documented on SQLite website. And there's no way to prohibit such syntax - you have to check your queries carefully. Pavel On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Benoit Mortgat <mort...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I am running the last version on SQLite (precompiled 3.6.23.1 binary > release for Windows as found on > http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-3_6_23_1.zip) command line. Here is the > input: > > create temporary table foo(col1 text, col2 text); > insert into foo values('a','b'); > insert into foo values('a','c'); > insert into foo values('b','d'); > insert into foo values('b','e'); > .mode > select col1, col2 from foo group by col1; > a|c > b|e > > As you can see, that last query does not result in any error, however > col2 should not be selectable if not in the group by clause? > > Is this a feature, a known bug or an unknown one? If this is a > feature, is there a pragma to forbid such a syntax? > > Have a nice day > > -- > Benoit Mortgat > 20, avenue Marcel Paul > 69200 Vénissieux, France > +33 6 17 15 41 58 > +33 4 27 11 61 23 > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
