Re: [GENERAL] Illegal use of aggregates or non-group column in target list

2000-03-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
G. Anthony Reina writes: > It's interesting that "select target, avg(reaction_time) from data_table > GROUP BY target;" works but not "select target, avg(reaction_time) from > data_table;". > > Doesn't the parser automatically group by the first variable returned? The parser really doesn't know

Re: [GENERAL] Illegal use of aggregates or non-group column in target list

2000-03-03 Thread Charles Tassell
Try : select target, avg(reaction_time) from data_table group by target; Haven't tested it, but it should be close to what you're looking for. At 02:14 PM 3/3/00, G. Anthony Reina wrote: >I'd like to return an average for one item in my database grouped by >another item. For example, > >The tab