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    Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause. · 920c8261
    Tom Lane authored
    For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a
    window definition that has any explicit framing clause.  The error message
    we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition
    itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not.
    Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that
    "OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does
    not.  This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya
    Krapchatov.  Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and
    in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting
    that omitting the parentheses will fix it.  Also improve the related
    documentation.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
    920c8261
parse_clause.c 70.4 KB