Details
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Task
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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
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10.2.4-4, 10.1.20, 10.2.4-5, 10.2.4-1, 10.2.4-2, 10.3.3-1
Description
GROUP_CONCAT supports ORDER BY and DISTINCT but not LIMIT clause.
Supporting LIMIT N[,M] could simplify queries.
something like
SUBSTRING_INDEX(GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT_WS(":",date,cnt) ORDER BY cnt DESC),",",1)
could be written as
GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT_WS(":",date,cnt) ORDER BY cnt DESC LIMIT 1)
this can be used in timeseries-like calculations. Suppose we have a table (date,cnt) and we want to produce a list of dates, for each year, where cnt was maximum for that year, showing such date,cnt for each year
currently this is written in an awkward manner and is also quite inefficient as we SELECT much more data that is necessary for the task:
SELECT LEFT(col1,4) AS _yyyy
, SUBSTRING_INDEX(GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT_WS(":",DATE_FORMAT(col1,"%a %Y-%m-%d"),LPAD(col2,8," ")) ORDER BY col2 DESC),",",1) AS col3
FROM t1
GROUP BY 1
;
Attachments
Issue Links
- duplicates
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MDEV-5556 LIMIT clause in GROUP_CONCAT function
- Closed
- relates to
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MDEV-5556 LIMIT clause in GROUP_CONCAT function
- Closed
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MDEV-11563 GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT ...) may produce a non-distinct list
- Closed