On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:34:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I tried this: > > > SELECT > > typ, > > ts, > > rank() over w AS foo_rank > > FROM > > foo > > WINDOW w AS (partition by typ order by ts desc) > > WHERE > > foo_rank < 4; > > > ERROR: syntax error at or near "WHERE" > > LINE 8: WHERE > > ^ > > RTFM ... WINDOW goes after WHERE (and GROUP BY, HAVING, ...) Thanks :) > Also, we have never allowed SELECT-alias references in WHERE; window > functions have nothing to do with that. We don't appear to be able to use the actual thing in the target list either. At a minimum, this is a pretty enormous POLA violation, and I think it rises to the level of a bug. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
