Date: 2014-08-05 00:41:47 +0200
From: @skinkie
To: SQL devs <>
Version: 11.17.21 (Jan2014-SP3)
CC: @njnes

Last updated: 2014-10-31 14:14:09 +0100

Comment 19948

Date: 2014-08-05 00:41:47 +0200
From: @skinkie

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.55 Safari/537.36
Build Identifier:

create table agg_error (a bool, b bool);
select max(a), b from agg_error group by a;
SELECT: identifier 'b' unknown

Shouldn't that be:
SELECT: cannot use non GROUP BY column 'b' in query results without an aggregate function

Reproducible: Always

MonetDB 5 server v11.17.22 (64-bit, 64-bit oids)
This is an unreleased version
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Found 31.4GiB available memory, 8 available cpu cores
Libraries:
libpcre: 8.33 2013-05-28 (compiled with 8.33)
openssl: OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014 (compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014)
libxml2: 2.9.1 (compiled with 2.9.1)
Compiled by: skinkie@bigdata.openebs.nl (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Compilation: gcc -g -Werror -Wall -Wextra -W -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wno-format-nonliteral -Winit-self -Winvalid-pch -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wpacked -Wunknown-pragmas -Wvariadic-macros -fstack-protector-all -Wstack-protector -Wpacked-bitfield-compat -Wsync-nand -Wjump-misses-init -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wlogical-op -Wunreachable-code
Linking : /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64

Comment 19959

Date: 2014-08-06 10:42:20 +0200
From: @njnes

improved error message

Comment 19961

Date: 2014-08-06 12:57:32 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 8e2e4bcad4bb made by Niels Nes niels@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=8e2e4bcad4bb

Changeset description:

fixed bug #3524, ie improved error message for using non group by columns in group by result

Comment 20357

Date: 2014-10-31 14:14:09 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Oct2014 has been released.