Re: returning row numbers in select

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Randall Skelton <skelton(at)brutus(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: returning row numbers in select
Date: 2004-03-10 23:18:40
Message-ID: 20040310231840.GA10056@wolff.to
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 17:25:49 -0500,
Randall Skelton <skelton(at)brutus(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca> wrote:
>
> That would be ideal as it is theoretically possible for there to be
> missing rows due to sampling errors; nevertheless, a WHERE test doesn't
> seem obvious to me. Can you please post an example? The time spacing
> between rows is 1 second but I want my select statement to return rows
> every 5 seconds (see marked lines below). I've tried various interval
> operations but I don't really understand how to relate the timestamp
> and and the interval.

You could extract seconds from timestamp, cast to integer and apply
the mod function and test against whichever remainder you want.

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