Re: Window Function "Run Conditions"

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Andy Fan <zhihui(dot)fan1213(at)gmail(dot)com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Window Function "Run Conditions"
Date: 2022-03-22 22:39:13
Message-ID: CAApHDvq29swVhJZAgLfVsrXHU-sFbEDePaCzWfauv5UvWu13KA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 17:04, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It seems like this effort would aid in implementing what some other databases implement via the QUALIFY clause, which is to window functions what HAVING is to aggregate functions.
> example: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/query-syntax#qualify_clause

Isn't that just syntactic sugar? You could get the same from adding a
subquery where a WHERE clause to filter rows evaluated after the
window clause.

David

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