Many times you have data with null values and you’d like to fill them with non-null values. For example, imagine this is your data:
You could replace them by a constant value like this:
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But in many cases you’ll want to fill them with the latest (or next) value available. This is a one-liner in libraries like Pandas with the fillna method, and on Postgres this way. On ClickHouse is also possible using array functions:
Here is a full explanation on what happens in each of the subqueries of this last query and of what each of the array functions does.
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