Re: SELECT with sum on groups ORDERING by the subtotals

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> I need an subtotal for all the products with the same group and that the
> query be ordered by the bigger subtotal.

(please proofread: the subtotals in your example output did not add up)

By "same group" I presume you mean the same code, as you don't actually use
the "group varchar(10)" column you created in your example. A major problem
you have is that you have no other way of ordering the rows except by the
code. So having a running subtotal is fairly pointless, as the items within
each code will appear randomly. Since only the grand total for each code is
significant, you could write something like this:

SELECT t.*, s.subtotal FROM
(SELECT code, SUM(total) AS subtotal FROM test GROUP BY 1) s,
test t
WHERE s.code = t.code
ORDER BY subtotal desc;

code | description | quant | price | total | subtotal
- -------+-------------+-------+-------+-------+----------
99120 | PRODUCT C | 10 | 0.8 | 8 | 338
99120 | PRODUCT C | 100 | 0.8 | 80 | 338
99120 | PRODUCT C | 200 | 0.8 | 160 | 338
99120 | PRODUCT C | 100 | 0.9 | 90 | 338
92110 | PRODUCT A | 10 | 1 | 10 | 120
92110 | PRODUCT A | 5 | 0.9 | 9 | 120
92110 | PRODUCT A | 100 | 0.9 | 90 | 120
92110 | PRODUCT A | 10 | 1.1 | 11 | 120
92190 | PRODUCT b | 10 | 1.1 | 11 | 41
92190 | PRODUCT b | 10 | 1.1 | 11 | 41
92190 | PRODUCT b | 10 | 1.1 | 11 | 41
92190 | PRODUCT b | 20 | 0.8 | 8 | 41

If you don't need all that intermediate stuff:

SELECT code, SUM(total) AS subtotal FROM test GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

code | subtotal
- -------+----------
99120 | 338
92110 | 120
92190 | 41

If you do need the other rows, you will have to specify a way of ordering
the rows within a code group.

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