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