Thanks to Dave Avendasora, we have apparently fixed the issue by patching the 
Oracle plugin to properly handle distinct and sorting in 
ERXBatchingDisplayGroups.

He will file a jira with his patch.

Andrew


On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

> And the qualifiers are what controls what SQL is generated.  It could also be 
> the way the DG is combining the qualifiers internally.  Maybe try creating 
> the OR externally and just setting one combined qualifier on the DG.  If that 
> does not work, consider dropping the ERXKey stuff and build it using the 
> Wonder qualifiers directly.  You might need to re-state the query.
> 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
> 
>> Also, the reason I point out the distinct/sorting issue is that the 
>> generated SQL uses an order by in the outer select, and if you add distinct 
>> in the inner select, it's not including the attributes required by the order 
>> by, but only the id attribute.  Thus, Oracle raises an error, because the 
>> distinct select must contain all the attributes used by the order by.  If I 
>> run the sql separately, I get the same error, and if I add the order by 
>> attributes manually to the SQL, I get the correct result.
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 28, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
>>> 
>>>> As a followup, I get the correct number of rows if I comment out any code 
>>>> which sorts the displayGroup using attributes other than the id column of 
>>>> the entity populating the displayGroup.
>>>> 
>>>> Without sorting, and with setUsesDistinct(true); I get 23 rows.  
>>>> Navigation works.
>>>> 
>>>> If I then try to sort the displayGroup (using in this case the entity's 
>>>> lastname then firstname attributes) I get the oracle error, because the 
>>>> inner most select statement generated by Wonder/EOF has a distinct, but is 
>>>> trying to orderby attributes that are in the outermost select but not the 
>>>> inner most select where the distinct statement is.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this a bug in Wonder where setUsesDistinct(true); does not work with 
>>>> sorting?
>>>> 
>>>> Am I missing something?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What is the qualifier?  If you are using one of the Wonder qualifiers, you 
>>> may have found a bug or may be using them incorrectly.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Chuck
>>> 
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