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Re: Extracting superlatives - SQL design philosophy


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: "Julien Theulier" <julien(at)squidsolutions(dot)com>
  • Cc: "'Mose'" <mose(dot)andre(at)gmail(dot)com>, "'Dave Crooke'" <dcrooke(at)gmail(dot)com>, "'pgsql-performance'" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Extracting superlatives - SQL design philosophy
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:42:46 -0500
  • Message-id: <2798.1267108966@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

"Julien Theulier" <julien(at)squidsolutions(dot)com> writes:
> Teradata provides a “qualify” syntax which works as a filtering condition on
> a windowed function result. This is the only DB allowing this direct
> filtering on windowed functions, from what I know.

Seems like you could easily translate that into SQL-standard syntax by
adding a level of sub-select:

	select ... from (select *, window_function wf from ...) ss
	where wf=1;

			regards, tom lane



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