From: | Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | columns for count histograms of values |
Date: | 2008-04-30 21:01:13 |
Message-ID: | 824FF9F9-9997-4AD9-9955-3CA658E150D4@gmail.com |
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Greetings -- I have a table of the kind
Ratings:
id integer
rating smallint
-- where value can take any value in the range 1 to 5. Now I want to
have a statistical table Stats of the form
id integer
min smallint
max smallint
avg real
r1 integer
r2 integer
r3 integer
r4 integer
r5 integer
-- how can I create it in one pass over Ratings? I can use min(),
max(), avg() for
insert into stats values (id,select min(rating), max(rating),
avg(rating), ...) from ratings
-- but what to do for r1,..,r5, short of subselects (select
count(rating) from ratings where stats.id=ratings.id) for each, which
is an overkill?
Also, if a table Stats already exists with some more columns, and we
need to do an update, not insert, for the above, how would that work --
update stats set min=min(ratings), ... from ratings where
stats.id=ratings.id -- how do we do the histogram in this case, where
the id is fixed explicitly?
Cheers,
Alexy
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