Unexpected Result in Windowing
Folks,
Robert Treat brought this up.
I create a table with something to partition by, and some meaningless
junk. I'm trying to get a random ordering inside each window:
CREATE TABLE foo(i, t) AS
SELECT i, md5((i*generate_series(1,10))::text) /* Nonsense text */
FROM generate_series(10,1) i;
SELECT
i,
t,
RANK() OVER (
PARTITION BY i
ORDER BY random()
)
FROM foo;
ERROR: ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in targetlist
Oops. I found this error message only in backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c
and am wondering whether there needs to be a different code path for
windowing, or...?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
David.
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
SELECT
i,
t,
RANK() OVER (
PARTITION BY i
ORDER BY random()
)
FROM foo;
ERROR: ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in targetlist
Fixed.
regards, tom lane
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:31:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
SELECT
i,
t,
RANK() OVER (
PARTITION BY i
ORDER BY random()
)
FROM foo;
ERROR: ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in targetlistFixed.
Thanks! :)
Cheers,
David.
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On Monday 30 March 2009 15:34:49 David Fetter wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:31:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
SELECT
i,
t,
RANK() OVER (
PARTITION BY i
ORDER BY random()
)
FROM foo;
ERROR: ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in targetlistFixed.
Thanks! :)
Yes, thanks!
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