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On 10 August 2010 17:03, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>>
>> No. It's built in (8.4) and it's called Windowing functions:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/tutorial-window.html
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-window.html
>>
>> SELECT group, last_value(value) over(ORDER BY number)
>> FROM table
>
> I may be mistaken, but as I understand it, a windowing function doesn't
> reduce the number of rows in the results?
>

I think you are mistaken.  The last_value function is a window
function aggregate.  Give it a try.

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Thom Brown
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