From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: eggyknap <eggyknap@gmail.com>
cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Minor quibble with description of WINDOW clause
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	message dated "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:05:57 -0600"
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:11:30 -0400
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eggyknap <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:
> The way the WINDOW clause docs are currently worded, it's clear from the
> grammar tree that such clauses come toward the end of the query. But this
> phrase made me wonder, incorrectly, whether they were supposed to come before
> calls to window functions, somehow:

> "...where window_name is a name that can be referenced from subsequent window
> definitions or OVER clauses"

> See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-select.html#SQL-WINDOW for
> the full context.

> I'd have preferred to see "...from OVER clauses or subsequent window
> definitions", which the attached simple patch does. And if I'm the only one
> that likes the idea of such a change, I'll gladly go away quietly. :)

I think you're right.  Applied and back-patched.

			regards, tom lane


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