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, andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk, david@fetter.org, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2025-08-16T19:19:54Z

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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

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:

> Attached are the v18 patches for adding RESPECT/IGNORE NULLS options
> to some window functions. Recent changes to doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
> required v17 to be rebased. Other than that, nothing has been changed.
>
> Oliver, do you have any comments on the patches?
>

Looks good, tried it on the nth_value test script from a bit ago - I added
a 1 million rows test and it takes an average of 12 seconds on my i7.