Re: How to get single raws for sums in a summary table?

Hello ennio,

i don't really understand your problem.

Why the value for cmf in your summary table is 0 for bbb. Do you want the
"first" value (whatever means first ?) in the field cmf to be shown. It is not
clear at all for me. Could you please precise it?

Thank you.

Regards,
Peter

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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 01:50
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Betreff: [NOVICE] How to get single raws for sums in a summary table?

Hi all,

I would like to get a summary table from an original one having the following
structure:

Table "public.test_t"
Column | Type | Modifiers
----------+-----------------------+-----------
cod_rif | character(3) |
titolo | character varying(20) |
quantity | integer |
cmf | double precision |
u_qq | double precision |
mont | numeric(10,4) |
vend | boolean |

and a few records like the following (listing purchases and sales for each
item):

=> select * from test_t;

cod_rif | titolo | quantity | cmf | u_qq | mont | vend
---------+--------+----------+---------+--------+---------+------
7 | aaa | 2500 | 25.455 | 0 | 60.0897 | f
34 | bbb | -700 | 0 | 0 | 0.0000 | t
28 | bbb | 2700 | 3.862 | 4.6 | 4.1957 | f
33 | ccc | 10000 | 4.36 | 0 | 4.3600 | f
30 | ccc | 5000 | 1.717 | 1.489 | 1.7170 | f
6 | bbb | -500 | 2.703 | 4.757 | 3.7151 | f
3 | bbb | 500 | 6.057 | 10.129 | 18.7311 | f
32 | ddd | 1500 | 0.55896 | 1.119 | 0.5590 | f
26 | aaa | -1000 | 6.11098 | 6.176 | 6.1110 | t
11 | ddd | -1500 | 10.537 | 4.021 | 20.5815 | t
(10 rows)

The 'summary table' should look more or less like this:

cod_rif | titolo | quantity | cmf | u_qq | mont | vend
---------+--------+----------+---------+--------+---------+------
any | aaa | 1500 | 25.455 | 6.176 | 60.0897 | f
any | bbb | 2000 | 0 | 4.757 | 4.1957 | t
any | ccc | 15000 | 4.36 | 1.489 | 1.7170 | f
any | ddd | 0 | 0.55896 | 1.119 | 20.5815 | f
(4 rows)

With a:

=> select distinct on (sum(quantity)) titolo, sum(quantity) from test_t group
by titolo;

I get single rows for each item

titolo | sum
--------+-------
ddd | 0
aaa | 1500
bbb | 2000
ccc | 15000
(4 rows)

but when I include any other field in the query the number of raws returned
grows to include all the original lines (because the other fields have distinct
values).

Do you have any suggestion to achieve the result I want?

Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Ennio.

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