Re: BUG #5123: bug in window function "last_value"

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrey <andrey(at)ulab(dot)ru>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5123: bug in window function "last_value"
Date: 2009-10-16 21:13:16
Message-ID: 20091016211316.GA20699@fetter.org
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:28:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > I think what the OP was expecting was to have the last value be 3
> > instead of changing. This is at least a POLA violation.
>
> [ shrug... ] It's what the spec requires, as far as anybody here
> can tell. As Hitoshi-san already noted, we do point out in our docs
> that last_value is not too useful unless you use a nondefault window
> frame selection. I'm not sure what else we could do.

Perhaps an illustration of the issue and a workaround in the docs?

Cheers,
David.
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