Re: Proposal: QUALIFY clause

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: QUALIFY clause
Date: 2025-07-22 03:43:15
Message-ID: CAHyXU0wnmAC2aSJXE8mWarydvQ_gY9OEFrpRNZ9OQ3De3vXZ2A@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> just for curiosity - why the HAVING clause was not used?
>
> Any window functions are +/- an "aggregate" function, and then HAVING
> looks more natural to me.
>

Hm, HAVING requires to apply 'group by' which windows functions do not
require (unlike aggregates).

superuser(at)postgres=# select * from (select 1 as v) q having true limit 1;
ERROR: column "q.v" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an
aggregate function
LINE 1: select * from (select 1 as v) q having true limit 1;

If a query has both window function and grouped aggregate, HAVING would be
applying at different grains potentially? If so, seems sus.

merlin

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