Re: lead() with arrays - strange behaviour

From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: lead() with arrays - strange behaviour
Date: 2019-08-08 14:27:09
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Tom Lane schrieb am 08.08.2019 um 16:10:
> David's point is that the two occurrences of lead() don't mean the
> same thing. A window function is directly tied to the SELECT that
> it is in the select-list of, and its notion of next and previous
> rows is concerned with the set of rows that that SELECT's FROM-clause
> generates. In this example, the inner SELECT has an empty FROM that
> returns one row, so the lead() in that SELECT doesn't do anything
> useful.

Ah! Now I get it ;)

Thanks for clearing that up.

> You could probably get where you want to go with something along
> the lines of

Yes, that's what I did in the end (see my initial post)

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