PostgreSQL - Check if column value exists in any previous row - postgresql

Question

I'm working on a problem where I need to check if an ID exists in any previous records within another ID set, and create a tag if it does.
Suppose I have the following table
| client_id | order_date | supplier_id |
| 1 | 2022-01-01 | 1 |
| 1 | 2022-02-01 | 2 |
| 1 | 2022-03-01 | 1 |
| 1 | 2022-04-01 | 3 |
| 2 | 2022-05-01 | 1 |
| 2 | 2022-06-01 | 1 |
| 2 | 2022-07-01 | 2 |
And I want to create a column with a "is new supplier" tag (for each client):
| client_id | order_date | supplier_id | is_new_supplier|
| 1 | 2022-01-01 | 1 | True
| 1 | 2022-02-01 | 2 | True
| 1 | 2022-03-01 | 1 | False
| 1 | 2022-04-01 | 3 | True
| 2 | 2022-05-01 | 1 | True
| 2 | 2022-06-01 | 1 | False
| 2 | 2022-07-01 | 2 | True
First I tried doing this by creating a dense_rank and filtering out repeated ranks, but it didn't work:
with aux as (SELECT client_id,
order_date,
supplier_id
FROM table)
SELECT *, dense_rank() over (
partition by client_id
order by supplier_id
) as _dense_rank
FROM aux
Another way I thought about doing this, is by creating an auxiliary id with client_id + supplier_id, ordering by date and checking if the aux id exists in any previous row, but I don't know how to do this in SQL.

Answer 1

You are on the right track.
Instead of dense_rank, you can just use row_number and on your partition by add supplier id..
Don't forget to order by order_date
with aux as (SELECT client_id,
order_date,
supplier_id,
row_number() over (
partition by client_id, supplier_id
order by order_date
) as rank
FROM table)
SELECT client_id,
order_date,
supplier_id,
rank,
(rank = 1) as is_new_supplier
FROM aux