Transformers - Add FIRST/LAST functions that ignore nulls #99
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FIRST
/LAST
agg functions in postgres db (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First/last_(aggregate))In Postgres there is no
IGNORE NULLS
for window functions (unlike e.g. Oracle or BigQuery), but they can be recreated using aggregates. Using these simplifies the queries a bit without impacting speed.The code below takes the last non-null value in the window. The coalesce is there in case there are nulls at the beginning of the ordering.