I have a table tthat has the following data:
name | n
------------+---
school | 4
hotel | 2
restaurant | 6
school | 3
school | 5
hotel | 1
When I run the following query, the result is somewhat odd.
select name, n,
first_value(n) over (partition by name order by n desc),
last_value(n) over (partition by name order by n)
from t;
name | n | first_value | last_value
hotel | 1 | 2 | 1
hotel | 2 | 2 | 2
restaurant | 6 | 6 | 6
school | 3 | 5 | 3
school | 4 | 5 | 4
school | 5 | 5 | 5
(6 rows)
Although it first_valueworks the way I expected, it last_valueworks weird. I think the column values last_valueshould be the same as first_valuebecause they first_valueare nin descending order.
Is this a PostgreSQL error or am I missing something?
PostgreSQL Version:
postgres=
version
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PostgreSQL 9.4.1 on x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0, compiled by Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) (based on LLVM 3.5svn), 64-bit
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