Tim,  can you provide everybody an overview of what functionality your
current patch provides? Maybe we can break remaining requirements into
tasks and have everyone work on a piece to get completed soon.

Thanks
Jacques
On Sep 14, 2014 7:06 AM, "Timothy Chen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> I'm also working on window functions (Yash is interested helping) and we
> should work together. I already have a first patch that provides a physical
> operator but now going to build on top of it to provide more flexible
> ground work for different window functions and offets configurations.
>
> Tim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Matt Burgess <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking at some windowing functions (starting with rank functions
> like row_number, rank, and dense_rank) right now, not sure if those count
> as analytic functions for this discussion or not...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matt
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 14, 2014, at 2:28 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Uli,
> >>
> >> Which analytics functions do you mean?
> >>
> >> Does this impression of high priority mean that you are willing to work
> on
> >> these analytics functions?
> >>
> >> Michael is offering to implement these functions for his own
> edification.
> >> That is a great thing. Could you provide some guidance about which
> >> functions you think would be more useful with some examples of why you
> >> think so?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Uli Bethke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My personal opinion is that analytic functions should take a much
> higher
> >>> priority. No analytics database engine can live without these. In my
> >>> opinion anything that you can do with ROLLUP/CUBE you can do with
> analytic
> >>> functions while the opposite is not true.
> >>>
> >>> Uli
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 13/09/2014 18:57, Michael Johnson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> For an advanced databases class project, I'm looking at adding CUBE
> and
> >>>> ROLLUP operators to Drill. (I'll be working up to that by trying out
> some
> >>>> smaller changes first to get a better understanding of Drill's code.)
> >>>>
> >>>> Does this sound like a feature that you might want to incorporate into
> >>>> Drill? Any other thoughts about this idea?
> >>>>
> >>>> Michael
> >>>
>

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