Re: Count of records in a row

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Robert James <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Count of records in a row
Date: 2013-10-22 13:20:30
Message-ID: 20131022132030.GA31996@depesz.com
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On pon, paź 21, 2013 at 08:38:52 -0400, Robert James wrote:
> I have a table of event_id, event_time. Many times, several events
> happen in a row. I'd like a query which replaces all of those events
> with a single record, showing the count.
>
> Eg: Take A,A,A,B,C,A,D,A,A,D,D,B,C,C and return: A,3; B,1; C,1; A,1;
> D,1; A,2; D,2; B,1; C,2
> How can I do that?

"A" or other letters don't really match your schema description.
Please provide sample schema (as in: create table ...), sample data, and
expected output.

Best regards,

depesz

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