docs: add post calculation metrics #183
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Related to: lightdash/lightdash#17437
Related to: https://linear.app/lightdash/issue/CENG-77/support-percent-of-total-and-other-post-sql-metric-types-in-looker2dbt
Add Post Calculation Metrics
This PR introduces post calculation metrics, a new experimental feature that allows for computations after aggregate and non-aggregate metrics in a query. Post calculation metrics enable window functions and include three new metric types:
percent_of_previous
- Shows the current value as a percentage of the previous row's valuepercent_of_total
- Calculates the current value as a percentage of the total across the result setrunning_total
- Computes a cumulative totalPost calculation metrics:
filters
YML propertyExamples for each new metric type are included in the documentation with sample YAML configurations.