Re: Add RESPECT/IGNORE NULLS and FROM FIRST/LAST options

Oliver Ford <ojford@gmail.com>

From: Oliver Ford <ojford@gmail.com>

To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

Cc: krasiyan@gmail.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, vik@postgresfriends.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk, david@fetter.org

Date: 2025-01-24T08:27:09Z

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Fix coding style with "else".
- 20628b62e46e 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix multi WinGetFuncArgInFrame/Partition calls with IGNORE NULLS.
- 2d7b247cb414 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix Coverity issue reported in commit 2273fa32bce.
- dd766a441d69 19 (unreleased) landed
Use ereport rather than elog in WinCheckAndInitializeNullTreatment.
- 5f3808646f67 19 (unreleased) landed
Avoid uninitialized-variable warnings from older compilers.
- 71540dcdcb22 19 (unreleased) cited
Fix Coverity issues reported in commit 25a30bbd423.
- 2273fa32bce7 19 (unreleased) landed
Improve EXPLAIN's display of window functions.
- 8b1b342544b6 18.0 cited
Automatically generate node support functions
- 964d01ae90c3 16.0 cited

Attachments

0005-ignore-nulls.patch (application/octet-stream) patch 0005

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
> Another possible problem is, probably the code does not work well if
> there are multiple partitions. Since win_nonnulls stores currentpos in
> a partition, when the partition ends, win_nonnulls needs to be
> reset. Otherwise, it mistakenly represents currentpos in the previous
> partition.
>
The attached patch should fix both of these. I've added extra tests
with a PARTITION BY in the window clause to test for multiple
partitions.