Re: Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?
Date: 2007-09-07 03:19:13
Message-ID: 46E0C331.2090506@joeconway.com
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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> => select code, subset, avg(value) from foo group by subset, code;
> code | subset | avg
> ------+--------+---------------------
> A | 3 | 98.0000000000000000
> A | 1 | 20.0000000000000000
> A | 4 | 98.0000000000000000
> A | 0 | 98.0000000000000000
> A | 2 | 98.0000000000000000
>

An alternative way to get the output below, would be to feed your
aggregate query above to the crosstab() function in contrib/tablefunc.

Joe

> => select code, round(avg(case when subset = '0' then value else null
> end),0) as v0,
> round(avg(case when subset = '1' then value else null end),0) as v1,
> round(avg(case when subset = '2' then value else null end),0) as v2,
> round(avg(case when subset = '3' then value else null end),0) as v3,
> round(avg(case when subset = '4' then value else null end),0) as v4
> from foo
> group by code;
> code | v0 | v1 | v2 | v3 | v4
> ------+----+----+----+----+----
> A | 98 | 20 | 98 | 98 | 98

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