Re: custom average window function failure - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sebastian P. Luque
Subject Re: custom average window function failure
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Msg-id 87a8ecvqzl.fsf@otaria.sebmel.org
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In response to custom average window function failure  (Seb <spluque@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: custom average window function failure  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 16:00:21 -0400,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> "Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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!

--
Seb

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