Postgres Next/Previous row SQL Query

Question

I have the following table structures in a Postgres 9.1 database but the ideal solution should be DB agnostic if possible:

Table: users
|id|username|
|1 |one              


        

Answer 1

update I've forgot about first_value and last_value functions in PostgreSQL, thanks to dnoeth he reminded me about it. However, his query is not working, because last_value is working with default window RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW and will not return correct results, so you either have to change range inside the over clause or use first_value with order by asc:

select
    i.id as id,
    i.userid as userid,
    i.itemname as itemname,
    coalesce(
        lead(i.id) over(order by i.created desc),
        first_value(i.id) over(order by i.created desc)
    ) as nextitemid,
    coalesce(
        lag(i.id) over(order by i.created desc),
        first_value(i.id) over(order by i.created asc)
    ) as previtemid,
    coalesce(
        lead(i.id) over(partition by i.userid order by i.created desc),
        first_value(i.id) over(partition by i.userid order by i.created desc)
    ) as nextuseritemid,
    coalesce(
        lag(i.id) over(partition by i.userid order by i.created desc),
        first_value(i.id) over(partition by i.userid order by i.created asc)
    ) as prevuseritemid,
    i.created as created
from items as i
   left outer join users as u on u.id = i.userid
order by i.created desc

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previous version
I think you could do this:

SELECT
  i.id AS id,
  i.userid AS userid,
  i.itemname AS itemname,
  coalesce(
      LEAD(i.id) OVER (ORDER BY i.created DESC),
      (select t.id from items as t order by t.created desc limit 1)
  ) AS nextitemid,
  coalesce(
      LAG(i.id) OVER (ORDER BY i.created DESC),
      (select t.id from items as t order by t.created asc limit 1)
  ) AS previtemid,
  coalesce(
      LEAD(i.id) OVER (partition by i.userid ORDER BY i.created DESC),
      (select t.id from items as t where t.userid = i.userid order by t.created desc limit 1)
  ) AS nextuseritemid,
  coalesce(
      LAG(i.id) OVER (partition by i.userid ORDER BY i.created DESC),
      (select t.id from items as t where t.userid = i.userid order by t.created asc limit 1)
  ) AS prevuseritemid,
  i.created AS created
FROM items i
  LEFT JOIN users u
  ON i.userid = u.id
ORDER BY i.created DESC;

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