Re: using window functions

Daniel Manesajian, 17.03.2009 04:33:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get an advance taste of the window function feature that I
> believe is supposed to be in 8.4. I'm running 8.4devel snapshot (dated
> Jan-01 which seems kind of old) grabbed from the snapshot page on the
> postgresql website.
>
> When I try a simple query "select avg(my_int) over (order by my_int rows
> unbounded preceding) order by 1;" I get an error:
>
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "over"
>
> Do I have to build from source to try window functions?
>

I'm using the build from January 1st (on Windows, provided by EnterpriseDB) and your statement gives me an error at the
keyword"unbounded". If I leave that out or add the missing range, it works.  

Are you sure you are connecting to the correct installation?

Btw: I'm not sure whether your statement makes sense. As you are not using partion by or selecting other columns from
thetable, the same could be achieved without a window function. But I guess you just wanted to play around ;) 

Thomas