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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-3402:
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Maybe "{{RANGE BETWEEN unbounded PRECEDING AND unbounded FOLLOWING}}" is a
special case for PostgreSQL, because it can be rewritten to "{{ROWS BETWEEN
unbounded PRECEDING AND unbounded FOLLOWING}}".
Can PostgreSQL handle a composite ORDER BY with a finite RANGE, say "{{ORDER BY
orderDate, price RANGE BETWEEN INTERVAL '1' DAY PRECEDING AND '2' DAY
FOLLOWING}}"?
> Allow RANGE with compoud ORDER BY clause
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>
> Key: CALCITE-3402
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-3402
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 1.18.0, 1.19.0
> Reporter: benj
> Priority: Major
>
> It will be very useful to have the capacity to use compound ORDER BY clause
> with RANGE
> {code:sql}
> apache drill (dfs.tmp)> SELECT a
> , last_value(c) OVER(PARTITION BY a ORDER BY c, b DESC RANGE BETWEEN
> UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING)
> FROM (SELECT 1 a, 'b' b, 3 c
> UNION SELECT 2, 'c', 4
> UNION SELECT 1, 'c', 4
> /* UNION ... */
> ) x;
> Error: VALIDATION ERROR: From line 2, column 56 to line 2, column 60: RANGE
> clause cannot be used with compound ORDER BY clause
> {code}
> I know it's possible (for last_value) to rewrite with first_value with an
> reverse ORDER BY and without RANGE to obtain correct result.
> But it will become sometimes less readable and request write from other SGBDR
> will not be compatible and should be rewrite, and for some other function
> than last_value, the problem will not be solved like that.
> compound ORDER BY clause with RANGE is possible with some SGBDR like
> Postgres:
> [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/sql-expressions.html#SYNTAX-WINDOW-FUNCTIONS]
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