Nested window functions not permitted

Started by Oliver Elphickover 10 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Oliver Elphick
olly@lfix.co.uk

I tried to do this:

SELECT p.company, p.start, p.yearend, p.idnum,
s.pdno, s.pdend,
CASE WHEN nth_value(s.pdend,(row_number() OVER w)::INTEGER -1) OVER w IS NULL
THEN p.start
ELSE nth_value(s.pdend,(row_number() OVER w)::INTEGER -1) + '1 day'::INTERVAL
END AS spdstart
FROM period AS p,
subperiod AS s
WHERE p.company = s.company AND p.yearend = s.yearend
WINDOW w AS (PARTITION BY p.start ORDER BY s.pdno)
ORDER BY p.yearend, s.pdno;

in order to get these results:

company | start | yearend | idnum | pdno | pdend | spdstart
---------+------------+------------+-------+------+------------+-----------
GBS | 2014-02-01 | 2015-01-31 | 1 | 1 | 2014-04-30 | 2014-02-01
GBS | 2014-02-01 | 2015-01-31 | 1 | 2 | 2014-07-31 | 2014-05-01
GBS | 2014-02-01 | 2015-01-31 | 1 | 3 | 2014-10-31 | 2014-08-01
GBS | 2014-02-01 | 2015-01-31 | 1 | 4 | 2015-01-31 | 2014-11-01
GBS | 2015-02-01 | 2016-01-31 | 2 | 1 | 2015-04-30 | 2015-02-01
GBS | 2015-02-01 | 2016-01-31 | 2 | 2 | 2015-07-31 | 2015-05-01
GBS | 2015-02-01 | 2016-01-31 | 2 | 3 | 2015-10-31 | 2015-08-01
GBS | 2015-02-01 | 2016-01-31 | 2 | 4 | 2016-01-31 | 2015-11-01
(8 rows)

but apparently nesting window functions is not permitted (in 9.3.10).
Is this possible in later versions of PG? or is there any other way to
look at a value from the previous row?

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Oliver Elphick (#1)
Re: Nested window functions not permitted

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:

I tried to do this:
SELECT p.company, p.start, p.yearend, p.idnum,
s.pdno, s.pdend,
CASE WHEN nth_value(s.pdend,(row_number() OVER w)::INTEGER -1) OVER w IS NULL
THEN p.start
ELSE nth_value(s.pdend,(row_number() OVER w)::INTEGER -1) + '1 day'::INTERVAL

Um, don't you just want lead() or lag()?

regards, tom lane

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#3Oliver Elphick
olly@lfix.co.uk
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: Nested window functions not permitted

On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 17:50 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:

I tried to do this:
SELECT p.company, p.start, p.yearend, p.idnum,
s.pdno, s.pdend,
CASE WHEN nth_value(s.pdend,(row_number() OVER w)::INTEGER -1) OVER w IS NULL
THEN p.start
ELSE nth_value(s.pdend,(row_number() OVER w)::INTEGER -1) + '1 day'::INTERVAL

Um, don't you just want lead() or lag()?

regards, tom lane

So I do! Thanks.

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