Re: TODO items for window functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: TODO items for window functions
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Msg-id 495906D0.5020406@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: TODO items for window functions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> However, if we do that then for consistency we'd have to invent
> DROP WINDOW FUNCTION, ALTER WINDOW FUNCTION, RENAME WINDOW FUNCTION,
> COMMENT ON WINDOW FUNCTION, yadda yadda, and insist that you refer
> to a function properly (with or without WINDOW) in each one of these
> commands.  Which would be a real PITA to implement and document,
> and I can't see that it's doing anything much for users either.
>
> So I'm still leaning to the first way.  Comments?
>
>             
>   

I don't know that this matters so much unless you're going to have a 
seperate namespace for window functions. Otherwise, isn't WINDOW 
basically a noise word for these operations?

cheers

andrew


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