date_trunc to aggregate values?

From: Kirk Wythers <wythe001(at)umn(dot)edu>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: date_trunc to aggregate values?
Date: 2013-02-04 17:18:55
Message-ID: 40B9A602-C4E9-4CBC-8734-8EC2276CFF69@umn.edu
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I am looking for suggestions on aggregation techniques using a timestamp column. In my case I have tried:

date_trunc('hour', derived_tsoil_fifteen_min_stacked.time2),

but date_truck only seems to aggregate the timestamp. I thought I could use

AVG(derived_tsoil_fifteen_min_stacked.value)

in combination with date_trunk, but I still get 15 minute values, not the hourly average from the four 15 minute records.

rowid date_truck time2 site canopy plot variable name value avg
2010-07-07_00:00:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 00:00:00 1 2010-07-07 00:00:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 21.06 21.0599994659424
2010-07-07_00:15:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 00:00:00 1 2010-07-07 00:15:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.96 20.9599990844727
2010-07-07_00:30:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 00:00:00 1 2010-07-07 00:30:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.88 20.8799991607666
2010-07-07_00:45:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 00:00:00 1 2010-07-07 00:45:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.8 20.7999992370605
2010-07-07_01:00:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 01:00:00 1 2010-07-07 01:00:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.72 20.7199993133545
2010-07-07_01:15:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 01:00:00 1 2010-07-07 01:15:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.64 20.6399993896484
2010-07-07_01:30:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 01:00:00 1 2010-07-07 01:30:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.55 20.5499992370605
2010-07-07_01:45:00_b4warm_a 2010-07-07 01:00:00 1 2010-07-07 01:45:00 cfc closed a2 tsoil_sc tsoil_avg1_sc 20.47 20.4699993133545

I was tying to get two records out of this set, with the 'avg" column representing the mean of the first and last four of each 15 minute records.

Suggestions?

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