[GENERAL] Different results from view and from its defintion query [w/ windowing function]

[Thalis Kalfigkopoulos]

Sorry for the lack of a more appropriate title.
The summary of my problem is: i run a query and I get some results; then I
create a view using this query, and I run the same query on the view, and
get different results. Details follow.

On the original table the analytical data is as follows:
# SELECT id,experiment,insertedon,score FROM data WHERE id=1160;

  id |        experiment        |     insertedon      | score
--------+----------------------+---------------------+--------
  1160 | alpha          | 2012-08-19 01:01:12 | 220.69
  1160 | alpha          | 2012-08-19 01:01:22 | 220.69
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:31 |  220.7
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:42 |  220.7
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:54 |  220.7

My query of interest using windowing functions is:

# SELECT id, experiment, first_value(insertedon) OVER (PARTITION BY score,
id) AS first_insertedon, score FROM data WHERE id=1160;
 id   |        experiment        |  first_insertedon   | score  |
--------+----------------------+---------------------+--------+----------
  1160 | alpha          | 2012-08-19 01:01:12 | 220.69 |
  1160 | alpha          | 2012-08-19 01:01:12 | 220.69 |
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:31 |  220.7 |
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:31 |  220.7 |
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:31 |  220.7 |

So far so good. I then create the view on this last query without the WHERE
condition:
# CREATE VIEW clustered_view AS SELECT id, experiment,
first_value(insertedon) OVER (PARTITION BY score, id) AS first_insertedon,
score FROM data;

I see the view created correctly and its definition is according to the
mentioned SQL query. I now select from the view adding the WHERE condition:
#  SELECT * from clustered_view WHERE id=1160;

  id   |        experiment         |  first_insertedon   | score  |
--------+----------------------+---------------------+--------+
  1160 | alpha          | 2012-08-19 01:01:12 | 220.69 |
  1160 | alpha          | 2012-08-19 01:01:12 | 220.69 |
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:54 |  220.7 |
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:54 |  220.7 |
  1160 | beta          | 2012-08-19 01:01:54 |  220.7 |

As you see, the 'first_insertedon' timestamp for the experiment 'beta' is
no longer the first of the timestamps i.e. '2012-08-19 01:01:31' as the
original query's results gave correctly, but it's now the last one i.e.
'2012-08-19 01:01:54'

Any ideas? Missing the obvious?


TIA,
Thalis K.