bharadwaj-pendyala commented on issue #26222:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/26222#issuecomment-6125040884

   I reproduced the NaN half of this at 6663e4348 with a unit test on 
`SlidingSumAccumulator::<Float64Type>`: add `[1.0, inf]`, slide to `[inf, 
2.0]`, then to `[2.0, 3.0]`. The last frame comes back `NaN` instead of `5.0`, 
because `retract_batch` does `inf - inf`.
   
   I can fix the NaN case by keeping the running sum over finite values only. 
For the float types, I'd count the `NaN`, `+inf` and `-inf` values currently in 
the frame. `evaluate` would return `NaN` if the frame holds a `NaN` or both 
infinities, `+inf`/`-inf` if it holds just one sign, and the finite sum 
otherwise. This would touch the sliding path in `sum.rs` and `AvgAccumulator` 
in `average.rs`, with sqllogictest cases from the queries above.
   
   I'd leave the `1e16` precision case for a separate change. Making retraction 
exact needs something like the fixed-point accumulator you sketched, or 
dropping retraction for floats. Both have a perf cost worth discussing on their 
own.
   
   Does tracking non-finite counts make sense for the NaN fix?
   


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