Re: BUG #18563: Where is tha "FIRST" aggregate function??
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>
Cc: iuritomazini.dev@gmail.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-08-01T19:23:29Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com> writes: >> On Aug 1, 2024, at 09:25, PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote: >> I am migrating for >> other database, bacause of the dificulty to get a similar resource to >> substitute the "FIRST" in PostgreSQL and I hope you can recognize this bad >> error and implement something to suppply this lack. Good bye! > It's trivial to implement in PostgreSQL: > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First/last_(aggregate) The built-in (since v16) "any_value()" aggregate is actually just like what that page shows for "first()". The name is chosen to reflect the fact that the aggregate itself isn't promising anything: you have to use it in the correct way to get useful behavior. regards, tom lane