V7.0.5 with Postgres: list(max:...) causes exception on totalCount

[Grestorn]

I've just updated my rather large project to Grails 4.0.11 from 3.3. One problem which I couldn't fix seems to be a regression with GORM 7.0.5 on Postgres:

This simple code:

   def activity(Integer max) {
        max = max ?: 50
        params.max = max
        if(!params.sort)
            params.sort = "created"
        if(!params.order)
            params.order = "desc"

        def activityList = Activity.list(params)

        render view:"activity", model:[activityList: activityList, count: activityList.getTotalCount()]
    }

is translated by GORM into

select distinct count(activity0_.id) as col_0_0_ from grails_activity activity0_ order by activity0_.created desc

which, on postgresql causes the following exception

ERROR: for SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in select list

For "totalCount" there seems to be no necessity to even include the order clause to the SQL statement.

[Grestorn]

It can be worked around by changing the above code to:

def activity(Integer max) {
        max = max ?: 50
        params.max = max
        if(!params.sort)
            params.sort = "created"
        if(!params.order)
            params.order = "desc"

        def activityList = Activity.findAll(params) {
            created != null
        }

        render view:"activity", model:[activityList: activityList, count: activityList.getTotalCount()]
    }

still the bug deserves to be fixed.

[darxriggs]

There is a similar problem with MySQL when using sql_mode with ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY.

It results in the following error:
ERROR 1140 (42000): Mixing of GROUP columns (MIN(),MAX(),COUNT(),...) with no GROUP columns is illegal if there is no GROUP BY clause.