Calculations inside window function in PostgreSQL - postgresql

Question

I have a dataset of sales. To summarize, the structure is
client_id
date_purchase
There might be several purchases done by the same customer on different dates. There can also be several purchases done on the same date (by different or the same customer).
My goal is to get the number of customers, for any given day, that made 2 or more purchases between that day and 90 days prior.
That is, the expected output is
date_purchase
number_of_customers
2022-12-19
200
2022-12-18
194
(...)
Please note this calculates, for any given date, the number of customer with 2+ purchases between that date and 90 days prior.
I know it has something to do with a window function. But so far I have not found a way to calculate, for every window of 90 days, how many customers have done 2+ purchases.
I've tried several window functions with no success:
partition by date_purchase
range between interval '90 days' preceding and current row
So far I can't get to calculate correctly the number for each date.

Answer 1

Window function doesn't seem to be relevant here because there is no relationship between the rows of the same window. A simple query or a self-join query should provide the expected result.
Assuming that client_id and date_purchase are two columns of my_table :
1. Query for a given date reference_date :
SELECT a.reference_date AS date_purchase, count(*) AS number_of_customers
FROM ( SELECT reference_date , client_id
FROM my_table
WHERE date_purchase <= reference_date AND date_purchase >= reference_date - INTERVAL '90 days'
GROUP BY client_id
HAVING count(*) >= 2
) AS a
2. Query for a given interval of dates reference_date => reference_date + INTERVAL '20 days' :
SELECT a.date AS date_purchase, count(*) AS number_of_customers
FROM ( SELECT ref.date, t.client_id
FROM my_table AS t
INNER JOIN generate_series(reference_date, reference_date + INTERVAL '20 days', '1 day') AS ref(date)
ON t.date_purchase <= ref.date AND t.date_purchase >= ref.date - INTERVAL '90 days'
GROUP BY ref.date, t.client_id
HAVING count(*) >= 2
) AS a
GROUP BY a.date
ORDER BY a.date
3. Query for all the date_purchase in mytable :
SELECT a.date AS date_purchase, count(*) AS number_of_customers
FROM ( SELECT ref.date, t.client_id
FROM my_table AS t
INNER JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT date_purchase AS date FROM my_table) AS ref
ON t.date_purchase <= ref.date AND t.date_purchase >= ref.date - INTERVAL '90 days'
GROUP BY ref.date, t.client_id
HAVING count(*) >= 2
) AS a
GROUP BY a.date
ORDER BY a.date