On Mon, Oct  1, 2012 at 03:49:14PM -0400, yary wrote:
> Is there a link between Sybase and Postgres?
> 
> I ask because I came across a bug in Netezza, and Netezza has a
> well-known Postgres lineage, but when web-searching the bug, the first
> thing I found was a Sybase reference-
> 
> http://geekswithblogs.net/marocanu2001/archive/2011/08/11/nasty-bug-in-sybase-iq-analytical-function-last_value-over-partition.aspx
> 
> and indeed that is the exact bug I found in Netezza! "first_value"
> works great, "last_value" has window size 1 unless you also say "rows
> between unbounded preceding and unbounded following".
> 
> Two unrelated commercial products with the same bug makes me wonder...
> does/did Postgres also have this issue, with both NZ and Sybase
> importing the same buggy code?

There is no code connection between Sybase and Postgres.

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