From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | eggyknap <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Minor quibble with description of WINDOW clause |
Date: | 2013-06-07 04:11:30 |
Message-ID: | 12795.1370578290@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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eggyknap <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The way the WINDOW clause docs are currently worded, it's clear from the
> grammar tree that such clauses come toward the end of the query. But this
> phrase made me wonder, incorrectly, whether they were supposed to come before
> calls to window functions, somehow:
> "...where window_name is a name that can be referenced from subsequent window
> definitions or OVER clauses"
> See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-select.html#SQL-WINDOW for
> the full context.
> I'd have preferred to see "...from OVER clauses or subsequent window
> definitions", which the attached simple patch does. And if I'm the only one
> that likes the idea of such a change, I'll gladly go away quietly. :)
I think you're right. Applied and back-patched.
regards, tom lane
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