Great, with a little tweaking (to get the remaining rows ordered correctly), this did the job.

Thank you Erik.

BR

-R

W dniu 6.11.2022 o 15:23, Erik Wienhold pisze:
On 06/11/2022 13:48 CET Rafal Pietrak <ra...@ztk-rp.eu> wrote:

W dniu 5.11.2022 o 19:05, Thiemo Kellner pisze:

You first could select the three users with the most recent entries with
a windowing function
(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-expressions.html#SYNTAX-WINDOW-FUNCTIONS)

surely I'm missing something crucial here:
select row_number() over w,* from eventlog where row_number() over w < 5
   window w as (partition by user);
ERROR:  window functions are not allowed in WHERE

So I'm unable to pick a limited number of rows within the user
"group-window" ranges.

Without that, I cannot proceed.

Any suggestions?

Windows functions are only permitted in SELECT and ORDER BY because they are
executed after WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING[1].

You need a derived table to filter on row_number:

     with
     ranked as (
         select *, row_number() over w
         from eventlog
         window w as (partition by user)
     )
     select *
     from ranked
     where row_number < 5;

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/tutorial-window.html

--
Erik




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