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In response to Re: Support for RANGE ... PRECEDING windows in OVER  (Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Support for RANGE ... PRECEDING windows in OVER  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Forgive my ignorance, but I don't entirely understand the problem. What does '+' and '-' refer to exactly?
Thanks!


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com> wrote:



On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 06/21/2013 05:32 PM, Hitoshi Harada wrote:

> I also later found that we are missing not only notion of '+' or '-',
> but also notion of 'zero value' in our catalog.  Per spec, RANGE BETWEEN
> needs to detect ERROR if the offset value is negative, but it is not
> always easy if you think about interval, numeric types as opposed to
> int64 used in ROWS BETWEEN.

Zero can be tested for with `val = (@ val)` ie `val = abs(val)`. That
should make sense for any type in which the concept of zero makes sense.


Yeah, I mean, it needs to know if offset is negative or not by testing with zero.  So we need "zero value" or "is_negative function" for each type.

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Hitoshi Harada

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