Re: querying the value of the previous row

Chris Velevitch wrote:
> I'm to write a query like:-
>
> select
>      case when column_name1 <> value_of_previous(column_name1)
>           then column_name1 end as column
>     ,column_name2
> from table
> ordered by column_name1, column_name2
>
> in order to get:-
>
> column        | column_name2
> --------------+--------------
> value_1_c1    |   value_1_c2
>               |   value_2_c2
>               |   value_3_c2
> value_2_c1    |   value_4_c2
>               |   value_5_c2
>               |   value_6_c2
> value_3_c1    |   value_7_c2
>               |   value_8_c2
>               |   value_9_c2
>
> How do I do this? (I'm using pg 7.4)

what does 'previous' mean here?   thats not a concept SQL really has.

anyways, that sort of report output is something you usually do via your
reporting code