Re: How can I create a feature request for QUALIFY clause into PostgreSQL?

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Onni Hakala <onni(at)keksi(dot)io>, pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How can I create a feature request for QUALIFY clause into PostgreSQL?
Date: 2022-10-03 18:11:17
Message-ID: f17dd31391b98c32b98ffcadb7aed164229695ba.camel@cybertec.at
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On Mon, 2022-10-03 at 20:38 +0300, Onni Hakala wrote:
> I was very happy learn about QUALIFY clause in BigQuery today.
>
> I have used window functions usually with subqueries like this:
> SELECT * FROM (
>   SELECT
>     *,
>     ROW_NUMBER OVER (PARTITION BY something ORDER BY modified_date DESC) AS row_number
>   FROM table_name
> )
> WHERE row_number = 1
>
>
> With QUALIFY it's much more ergonomic and cleaner to do the same thing.
> SELECT *
> FROM table_name
> QUALIFY ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY something ORDER BY modified_date DESC) = 1
>
>
> QUALIFY is also better since it doesn't include extra column row_number to the result.
>
> Where should I send message so that Postgres maintainers would consider adding this into the TODO page: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo

PostgreSQL supports DISTICT ON, which can do this even more ergonomically.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
--
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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