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benj commented on CALCITE-3402:
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Yes of course, these 2 expressions are well equivalent
 * RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING
 * ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING

I'm not sure of what you would expect with _RANGE BETWEEN INTERVAL '1' DAY 
PRECEDING AND '2' DAY FOLLOWING_, but I like the ideas I imagine. 
But not, for Postgres you can only do _value PRECEDING_ where +_value_+ is a 
positive integer. 
RANGE is only supported with the clause _UNBOUNDED PRECEDING/FOLLOWING_ and the 
clause_CURRENT ROW_.

So As you say first, it will be ok if it will be possible to do _ROWS BETWEEN 
UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING_ with DRILL.
 Unfortunately Apache Drill give an error with this expression:
{code:sql}
SELECT a
, last_value(c) OVER(PARTITION BY a 
                     ORDER BY c, b DESC 
                     ROWS 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: UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION ERROR: This type of window frame is currently not 
supported 
See Apache Drill JIRA: DRILL-3188
{code}
 Apparently, totday, with Drill, it's only possible to do :
 * *ROWS* BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND *CURRENT ROW* - with possibility of 
+several ORDER BY+ clause
 * *RANGE* BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND *CURRENT ROW* - with possibility of 
+only 1 ORDER BY+ clause
 * *RANGE* BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND *UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING* - with 
possibility of +only 1 ORDER BY+ clause

The missing possibility is "_... AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING_" in relation with 
several _ORDER BY_ clause

> Allow RANGE with compoud ORDER BY clause
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 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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