Nick wrote on 18.09.2009 23:31:
> Is there a way to return a percentage of the rows found? I tried
> window functions but get an error...
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "OVER"
>
> SELECT id, cume_dist FROM (
> SELECT id, cume_dist() OVER (ORDER BY id) FROM employees
> ) s
> WHERE cume_dist < 0.3
>
Works for me. Are you sure you are using Postgrs 8.4?
(Windowing functions are not available in earlier versions)
Regards
Thomas