Difficulties with LAG-function when calculating overtime - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject Difficulties with LAG-function when calculating overtime
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Hi all, I'm having difficulties dealing with values from "previous-rows" (LAG).
 
I have these variables:
balance: A user's balance of worked hours for month, may be negative if worked too little.
overtime_rate: percent-value used to calculate "bonus hours". Ex: If a user has a balance of 10 hours (meaning 10 hours overtime) and 50% then he gets 5 "extra hours" which is added to the accumulated total.
compensatory_time: A user may have hours logged as compensatory time when having some hours off work.
payout: A number of hours the user gets "payed" (withdraw) when getting compensated for overtime for the current month.
 
I have this (simplified example) schema:
 
drop table if exists logged_hours;
create table logged_hours(
    date DATE NOT NULL,
    balance NUMERIC(100,2) NOT NULL,
    overtime_rate INT NOT NULL,
    compensatory_time NUMERIC(100,2) NOT NULL,
    payout NUMERIC(100,2) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO logged_hours(date, balance, overtime_rate, compensatory_time, payout)
VALUES
      ('2018-01-01',  17.5, 50, 0, 26.25)
    , ('2018-02-01',   2.5, 50, 5   , 0)
    , ('2018-03-01',  14  , 50, 4   , 3.75)
    , ('2018-04-01', -10  , 50, 10  , 0)
;
And I'm trying to craft a query to calculate, for each month:
- balance (the "input-value")
- extra overtime
  This is GREATEST(balance minus compensatory-time minus "accumulated total from previous period if negative", 0)
- Accumulated balance
  balance + extra_overtime - compensatory_time - payout + "accumulated balance from previous period"
 
Here we see that extra_overtime and accumulated_balance are "inter-related"
 
The goal is to come up with a query which gives this data (from the above INSERT):
 
datebalancebasis_for_extra_overtimeextra_overtime (50%)total_timepayoutcompensatory_timeaccumulated_balance_after_payout
2018-01-0117.5017.5(17.5 * 0.5) 8.75(17.5 + 8.75) 26.2526.250.00(26.26 26.250
2018-02-012.50002.50.005.00(2.5 5)2.5
2018-03-0114.00(14 – 42.5) 7.5(7.5 * 0.5) 3.75(14 + 3.75) 17.753.754.00(17.75 – 3.75 4 2.5) 7.5
2018-04-01–10.0000–100.0010.00(–10 – 10 + 7.5) –12.5
 
 
As we see, the "previous period"'s value for "accumulated_balance_after_payout" is used in the calculation of the fields "basis_for_extra_overtime" (for period 2018-03, because the accumulated balance is negative) and "accumulated_balance_after_payout".
 
I have this basis-query:
 
 
SELECT lh.date   , lh.balance
-- Basis for extra overtime: balance - compensatory_time - "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
    , GREATEST(lh.balance                  - lh.compensatory_time              -- TODO: minus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
          , 0) AS basis_for_extra_overtime   , (GREATEST(lh.balance                   - lh.compensatory_time               -- TODO: minus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
           , 0) * lh.overtime_rate/100) as extra_overtime
-- balance + extra_overtime
    , lh.balance     -- extra_overtime
          + (GREATEST(lh.balance                         - lh.compensatory_time                     -- TODO: minus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
                 , 0) * lh.overtime_rate/100) AS total_time   , lh.payout   , lh.compensatory_time

-- Accumulated balance: (total_time - payout - compensatory_time + "previous month's" accumulated_balance
    , lh.balance     -- extra_overtime
          + (GREATEST(lh.balance                         - lh.compensatory_time                     -- TODO: minus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
                 , 0) * lh.overtime_rate/100)         - lh.payout         - lh.compensatory_time   -- TODO: plus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout
    AS accumulated_balance_after_payout
FROM
     (SELECT cast(generate_series('2018-01-01' :: DATE, '2018-11-01' :: DATE, '1 month') AS DATE) as start_date) AS q        CROSS JOIN
         logged_hours lh
WHERE lh.date = q.start_date
ORDER BY lh.date ASC
;
 
And have tried to use LAG to use value from "previous row" when calculating "basis_for_extra_overtime":
 
SELECT lh.date   , lh.balance
-- Basis for extra overtime: balance - compensatory_time - "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
    , GREATEST(lh.balance                  - lh.compensatory_time                  + LEAST(LAG(                              lh.balance                                  + (GREATEST(lh.balance - lh.compensatory_time, 0)                                         * lh.overtime_rate/100)                                  - lh.payout                                  - lh.compensatory_time                              ) OVER (order by lh.date)
                        , 0)         , 0) AS basis_for_extra_overtime   , (GREATEST(lh.balance                   - lh.compensatory_time               -- TODO: minus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
           , 0) * lh.overtime_rate/100) as extra_overtime
-- balance + extra_overtime
    , lh.balance         + (GREATEST(lh.balance                         - lh.compensatory_time                     -- TODO: minus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout if negative
                 , 0) * lh.overtime_rate/100) AS total_time   , lh.payout   , lh.compensatory_time

-- Accumulated balance: (total_time - payout - compensatory_time + "previous month's" accumulated_balance
    , lh.balance         + (GREATEST(lh.balance                         - lh.compensatory_time                , 0) * lh.overtime_rate/100)         - lh.payout         - lh.compensatory_time   -- TODO: plus "previous month's" accumulated_balance_after_payout
    AS accumulated_balance_after_payout
FROM
     (SELECT cast(generate_series('2018-01-01' :: DATE, '2018-11-01' :: DATE, '1 month') AS DATE) as start_date) AS q        CROSS JOIN
         logged_hours lh
WHERE lh.date = q.start_date
ORDER BY lh.date ASC
;
 
In the query above I use LEAST(<expr>, 0) to only add the value if negative, effectively subtracting it, which is what I want.
The problem with this as I've written it above is that it tries to subtract the previous row's accumulated_balance_after_payout, but the calculation of that is not correct because in order to do that we need the previous row's basis_for_extra_overtime, which again is dependent of the previous-previous-row, and it kind of gets difficult from here...
 
Anyone has a clever way to solve this kinds of issues and craft a query which produces the desired result as in the table above?
 
Thanks.
 
--
Andreas Joseph Krogh

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