Re: WHERE of an AGGREGATE ...

From: deststar <deststar(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WHERE of an AGGREGATE ...
Date: 2003-06-14 23:58:03
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Isn't that what the having clause is about?
- Stuart

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:31, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> I have a query that looks like:
>
> SELECT SUM(bytes) AS traffic
> FROM traffic_table
> GROUP BY ip;
>
> I want to narrow that SELECT down to a subset, like:
>
> SELECT SUM(bytes) AS traffic
> FROM traffic_table
> WHERE traffic < ( 100 * 1024 * 1024 )
> GROUP BY ip;
>
> which, of course, won't work, cause I need to do the GROUP BY before I do
> the WHERE ... but there has to be a way of coding that so that it does
> work :(
>
> I'm overlooking something obvious here ... I think?
>
> Thanks ...
>
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