Re: need to join successive log entries into one

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:17:33PM +0000, Richard H wrote:
>
> > I need to produce a new table that coalesces immediately successive
> > operations on a run into one, e.g.:
>
> > run | start | done
> > 1415| 2001-01-29 12:36:55| 2001-02-07 13:02:38
> > 1415| 2001-02-14 07:40:04|
> > 1747| 2001-02-15 09:14:39| 2001-03-01 09:02:39
> > 1747| 2001-03-05 13:13:58|
> > 1954| 2001-02-02 20:55:39| 2001-03-02 10:17:15
>
> Try:
>
> select run,min(start),max(done) from mytable group by run;

select run,min(start),max(done) from mytable group by run
UNION ALL
select run,start,NULL from mytable where done is null;

Assuming that any given run has only one open step.

Ross