Cause (Documented platform behavior): ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY rejects queries whose result would be nondeterministic.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Misleading approaches:
- Removing ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY from sql_mode — hides nondeterministic results.
Limitations:
- Source-derived; not reproduced.
- Default-on history of ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY (5.7.5+) is general knowledge, not from a fetched doc.
Other error fragments:
- this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mysql/mysql-server/a1ef44f1d327b940a763b25eee2c6e146a0ebdb0/share/messages_to_clients.txt (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Messages: 'Expression #%u of %s is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column '%-.192s' which is not functionally dependent on columns in GROUP BY clause; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by' and the aggregated-without-GROUP-BY variant.
Search phrasings: this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by; mysql 1055 nonaggregated column GROUP BY; ANY_VALUE mysql only_full_group_by
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Query rejected with error 1055 (or the aggregated-without-GROUP-BY variant).
- Context
- Product: MySQL Component: SQL mode ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY Operation: Running agent-generated or legacy SQL that selects non-aggregated columns not in GROUP BY (valid in SQLite/old MySQL) Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Packages: mysql-server current (message catalog) Trigger: SELECT list/HAVING/ORDER BY references a column neither aggregated nor functionally dependent on GROUP BY columns while ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY is enabled.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [MySQL 5.7+/8.x] ERROR 1055 'Expression #N of SELECT list is not in GROUP BY clause and contains nonaggregated column ... incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by' — LLM/SQLite/old-
Recommended action: Rewrite the query: add the column to GROUP BY, aggregate it (MAX/MIN/ANY_VALUE()), or join a grouped subquery; avoid disabling ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY globally.
Option: Make the query deterministic [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: See record scope.
Steps:
1. SELECT customer_id, ANY_VALUE(name), COUNT(*) FROM orders GROUP BY customer_id
2. or add the column to GROUP BY / use MAX(name)
Expected: Command proceeds without the error.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 0670eaea-5ae3-48c4-8d8f-b6f8b6652ff3
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Rewrite the query: add the column to GROUP BY, aggregate it (MAX/MIN/ANY_VALUE()), or join a grouped subquery; avoid disabling ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY globally. Option: Make the query deterministic [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: See record scope. Steps: 1. SELECT customer_id, ANY_VALUE(name), COUNT(*) FROM orders GROUP BY customer_id 2. or add the column to GROUP BY / use MAX(name) Expected: Command proceeds without the error.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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