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From Adam Brusselback
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In response to first_value/last_value  (Tom Smith <tomsmith1989sk@gmail.com>)
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Is there a reason you can't do that now with a limit 1/order by/union all?
Just have it ordered one way on the first query and the other on the bottom. That will give you two rows that are the first / last in your set based on whatever column you order on.

On May 18, 2016 8:47 PM, "Tom Smith" <tomsmith1989sk@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello:

Is there a plan for 9.7  to enable using the two aggregate function
as non-window function?   i.e.  enabling getting the first/last row
in single sql without using window features.
There is actually a  C-extension for first()/last().  
I am wondering  if 9.7 would make them built-in function like max/min

Thanks

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