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From: Olivier Leprêtre <olepretre@maule.fr>
To: 'Martin Stöcker' <martin.stoecker@stb-datenservice.de>
To: pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org
To: 'David G. Johnston' <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: nth_value and row_number in a partition
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:56:04 +0100
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David, Martin, thanks for your kind help everything works now !

 

Nice week-end to all of you

 

Olivier

 

De : Martin Stöcker [mailto:martin.stoecker@stb-datenservice.de] 
Envoyé : jeudi 25 janvier 2018 21:13
À : Olivier Leprêtre <o.lepretre@gmail.com>; pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org
Objet : Re: nth_value and row_number in a partition

 

Hi Olivier

can you please give me the structure of your table, maybee some sample data too.
And please describe in words not in SQL your calculation.

Regards Martin

Am 25.01.2018 um 20:49 schrieb Olivier Leprêtre:

Hi David,

 

Thanks for your answer, I tried your suggestion as well as many other combinations, no success. Here are some of them. I just don't understand which syntax is required

 

select roads,orders,(first_value(v1) 

over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)-(nth_value(v2,cast(row_number() over (partition by roads,order by orders)  as integer)) over (partition by roads,segment order by orders))) as result 

from mytable

or

select roads,orders,(first_value(v1) 

over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)-(nth_value(v2,row_number() over (partition by roads,order by orders)::integer)) over (partition by roads,segment order by orders))) as result 

from mytable

 

>>syntax error near order (bold)

 

select roads,orders,(first_value(v1) 

over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)-(nth_value(v2,row_number() over (partition by roads)::integer)) over (partition by roads,segment order by orders))) as result 

from mytable

 

>> syntax error near over

 

select roads,orders,(first_value(v1) 

over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)-nth_value(v2,row_number() over (partition by roads)::integer) over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)) as result 

from mytable

 

>> window call cannot be imbricated

 

select roads,orders,(first_value(v1) 

over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)-nth_value(v2,row_number()  over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)::integer)) as result 

from mytable

 

>> nth_value requires an over clause

 

select roads,orders,(first_value(v1) 

over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)-nth_value(v2,row_number()::integer) over (partition by roads,segment order by orders)) as result 

from mytable

 

>> row_number requires an over clause

 

 

 

 

 

De : David G. Johnston [mailto:david.g.johnston@gmail.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 25 janvier 2018 19:44
À : Olivier Leprêtre  <mailto:o.lepretre@gmail.com> <o.lepretre@gmail.com>
Cc : pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org <mailto:pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org> 
Objet : Re: nth_value and row_number in a partition

 

On Thursday, January 25, 2018, Olivier Leprêtre <o.lepretre@gmail.com <mailto:o.lepretre@gmail.com> > wrote:

nth_value(integer, bigint) doesn't exists.  

This is close, you just need to cast to integer. 

(cast(row_number() as integer)  over (partition by roads,segments order by orders))) 

You cannot separate the window function from its over clause.

 

Cast( Row_number() over (...) as integer )

 

Not tested...and I tend to use :: instead of cast

 

David J.

 

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