Fwd: Re: sql basic question

sorry, only a private replay and not to the list

---------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----------
Von: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>
An: Antonio Parrotta <antonioparrotta(at)gmail(dot)com>
Datum: 28. Dezember 2012 um 15:19
Betreff: Re: [SQL] sql basic question
Hi,

your question was: "What I want to achieve is a result table with min and max
distance for each side".

Okay, with SIDE in 0,1,-1,2,-2,3,-3 there are exactly 14 possible values for
each SIDE and Min/Max.

If this is wrong, describe your problem better.

Antonio Parrotta <antonioparrotta(at)gmail(dot)com> hat am 28. Dezember 2012 um 15:12
geschrieben:
> Hi Andreas, Anton,
>
> I did some test and both queries didn't worked. Maybe I was not clear with
> the example provided.
> My table contains more than 160K records with SIDE 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 3 and
> -3.
> Example provided is a very small subset.
>
> *Andrea's *query is failing because it is getting only distinct SIDEs. The
> query returns just 14 rows.
>
> *Anton's *one because it is joining on distance so merges records without a
> relation (I have many rows with a distance of 0 for example). I need to
> have a join on IDs instead
>
> Thanks
>
> - Antonio
>
>
> On 28 December 2012 13:00, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>wrote:
>
> > >
> > > so the result should be:
> > > LABEL ID Distance SIDE
> > > "15"; 119006; 0.10975569030617; 1
> > > "19"; 64056; 0.41205442839764; 1
> > > "14"; 64054; 0.118448307450912; 0
> > > "24"; 119007; 0.59758734628752; 0
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > test=*# select * from foo;
> > label | id | distance | side
> > -------+--------+-------------------+------
> > 15 | 119006 | 0.10975569030617 | 1
> > 14 | 64054 | 0.118448307450912 | 0
> > 16 | 64055 | 0.176240407317772 | 0
> > 20 | 64057 | 0.39363711745035 | 0
> > 19 | 64056 | 0.41205442839764 | 1
> > 24 | 119007 | 0.59758734628752 | 0
> > (6 rows)
> >
> > test=*# select * from (select distinct on (side) label, id, distance, side
> > from
> > foo order by side, distance) a union all (select distinct on (side) label,
> > id,
> > distance, side from foo order by side, distance desc) order by side desc,
> > label;
> > label | id | distance | side
> > -------+--------+-------------------+------
> > 15 | 119006 | 0.10975569030617 | 1
> > 19 | 64056 | 0.41205442839764 | 1
> > 14 | 64054 | 0.118448307450912 | 0
> > 24 | 119007 | 0.59758734628752 | 0
> > (4 rows)
> >
> >
> > HTH, Andreas
> >
> Hi Andreas, Anton,
>
> I did some test and both queries didn't worked. Maybe I was not clear with the
> example provided.
> My table contains more than 160K records with SIDE 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 3 and -3.
> Example provided is a very small subset.
>
> Andrea's query is failing because it is getting only distinct SIDEs. The query
> returns just 14 rows.
>
> Anton's one because it is joining on distance so merges records without a
> relation (I have many rows with a distance of 0 for example). I need to have a
> join on IDs instead
>
> Thanks
>
> - Antonio
>
>
> On 28 December 2012 13:00, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de> wrote:
> > >
> > > so the result should be:
> > > LABEL ID Distance SIDE
> > > "15"; 119006; 0.10975569030617; 1
> > > "19"; 64056; 0.41205442839764; 1
> > > "14"; 64054; 0.118448307450912; 0
> > > "24"; 119007; 0.59758734628752; 0
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > test=*# select * from foo;
> > label | id | distance | side
> > -------+--------+-------------------+------
> > 15 | 119006 | 0.10975569030617 | 1
> > 14 | 64054 | 0.118448307450912 | 0
> > 16 | 64055 | 0.176240407317772 | 0
> > 20 | 64057 | 0.39363711745035 | 0
> > 19 | 64056 | 0.41205442839764 | 1
> > 24 | 119007 | 0.59758734628752 | 0
> > (6 rows)
> >
> > test=*# select * from (select distinct on (side) label, id, distance, side
> > from
> > foo order by side, distance) a union all (select distinct on (side) label,
> > id,
> > distance, side from foo order by side, distance desc) order by side desc,
> > label;
> > label | id | distance | side
> > -------+--------+-------------------+------
> > 15 | 119006 | 0.10975569030617 | 1
> > 19 | 64056 | 0.41205442839764 | 1
> > 14 | 64054 | 0.118448307450912 | 0
> > 24 | 119007 | 0.59758734628752 | 0
> > (4 rows)
> >
> >
> > HTH, Andreas