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From: Guyren Howe <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: nth_value out of more than n values returns null
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:46:08 -0800
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Wouldn’t it be offset 4_999_999?

I’d still like to understand why nth_value doesn’t work.
On 4 Nov 2024 at 15:44 -0800, David G. Johnston <[email protected]>, wrote:
> On Monday, November 4, 2024, Guyren Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I’m trying to get the id of the 5,000,000th record, so I can join against it to get a name. I didn’t fully understand what the docs say there. What am I missing?
>
> So just use “offset 5_000_000 limit 1”.  Bringing in a window function here seems unhelpful.
>
> David J.
>

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