Re: query on query

From: Jayadevan M <jayadevan(dot)maymala(at)ibsplc(dot)com>
To: 'Luca Ferrari' <fluca1978(at)infinito(dot)it>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: query on query
Date: 2013-07-05 07:02:55
Message-ID: 3411BBAFF5A2244FA405CC91D9473A602369B11F@PBOX2.ibsplc.com
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>
>>
>> So each student may get counted many times, someone with 99 will be
>> counted
>> 10 times. Possible to do this with a fat query? The table will have
>> many thousands of records.
>>
>
>
>Not sure I got the point, but I guess this is a good candidate for a CTE:
>
>WITH RECURSIVE t(n) AS (
> VALUES (10)
> UNION ALL
> SELECT n+10 FROM t WHERE n < 50
>)
>select count(*), t.n from m, t where mark > t.n group by t.n;

I meant 'fast', not 'fat. Sorry for the typo.

You got it right. The query gets the data exactly as I wanted it. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Jayadevan

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