Re: Amazon Redshift

On 11/5/14, 3:42 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> philip taylor <philtay51(at)mail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> do you think we should implement some of the functions offered by
>> Amazon Redshift?
>>
>> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_SQL_functions.html
>
> Well, obviously we already have many of the functions linked from
> that page. I think that if you want to go through them and pick
> out a few that you think are particularly promising it could start
> a useful discussion. Pointing at a page that includes such things
> as CURRENT_DATE, the avg() aggregate, and the lead() window
> function is just going to waste the time of everyone who follows
> the link. It's not like all of them would be committed in the same
> patch anyway.

At the risk stating the obvious, before we look at implementing them we should see if Amazon would donate that effort.

But as Kevin said, first step is discussion on what we don't have and whether we want it.
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