WordPress database error: [Expression #1 of ORDER BY clause is not in SELECT list...

Posted on October 2, 2019

Hi, We’re using DO managed database for two of our Wordpress sites, one of them shows the following error with debug=true in wp-config.php

WordPress database error: [Expression #1 of ORDER BY clause is not in SELECT list, references column ‘wordpress-programs.wp_posts.post_date’ which is not in SELECT list; this is incompatible with DISTINCT] SELECT DISTINCT YEAR( post_date ) AS year, MONTH( post_date ) AS month FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘attachment’ ORDER BY post_date DESC

Wordpress 5.2.3. PHP 7.3.9-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1, MySQL 8.0.16 - Linux

The other site is just fine, see config below and the content is identical i.e we have similar posts on both

Wordpress 5.2.3 PHP 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, MySQL 8.0.16 - Linux

We’ve tried the fixes for Disable ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY from the following link but didn’t help. Can you please review and help?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23921117/disable-only-full-group-by

Thanks James

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Bobby

October 2, 2019

Hello,

I think recently another person had the same issue. You can have a look at this question here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/sql_mode-only_full_group_by?comment=82397

They were able to fix the problem by setting the sql_mode on session as instructed by the DO support team.

Hope that this helps! Regards, bobby

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October 2, 2019

Hi Bobby,

Thanks, that was quick!

I did see this post before posting but please note that I’m not privy to what the DO support guys instructed this user to do, and also just guessing it was similar to - SET SESSION sql_mode=(SELECT REPLACE(@@sql_mode,‘ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY’,‘’));

Which I tried with no luck

James