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Re: custom average window function failure

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On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Sebastian P. Luque <spluque@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 16:00:21 -0400,
> Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On closer inspection, the error is only in the
>>>> aggregate-used-as-window-function case, not plain aggregation.
>
>>> Yes, I see the same phenomenon.  Could someone suggest a workaround
>>> until this is fixed?  I'm under the gun to submit output tables and
>>> the only thing I can think of is a crawling slow loop to step through
>>> each window twice: once using the plain aggregation and another
>>> without just get all rows.  I highly doubt it will be worthwhile,
>>> given it's going to be about 1000 iterations, and each one would take
>>> about 30-45 min...
>
>> Are you in a position to apply patches?  It's a one-line fix:
>> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=dca25c2562199ce1e7e26367613912a8eadbbde8
>
>> Alternatively, the problem doesn't manifest when the aggregate
>> transtype and output type are the same, so you could probably refactor
>> your code to use plain array_agg and apply the finalfunc separately in
>> the SQL query.
>
> Perfect, I'll try the latter option on this one.  Thanks so much to both
> of you for your prompt feedback!

Aside: nice use of custom aggregates through window functions.  I use
this tactic heavily.

merlin


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