Re: what's wrong with this code?

From: Michael Wood <esiotrot(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(at)panix(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL List - Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>, amul sul <sul_amul(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>
Subject: Re: what's wrong with this code?
Date: 2015-06-18 22:27:54
Message-ID: CAP6d-HVKxmn1-=LTOdEcpm719NoeHA8PQVDByu_-XWjQtf_t9w@mail.gmail.com
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The aliases were quoted, so I don't think they are a problem.

Check the spelling of "pop_stdev". In your query you only had one "d" but
you talk about "pop_stddev" and Amul said it is actually called
"stddev_pop".

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Michael Wood
On 18 Jun 2015 10:12 PM, "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel(at)panix(dot)com> wrote:

> I am told pop_stddev(integer) does not exist and explicit type casting may
> help. I'll be reading up on that in the next few minutes and see if I can
> get this working. I know why the aliases were a problem or would have been
> a problem too, the first word in every one of them that don't work now was
> population with a blank space following it so psql probably thought this
> idiot is trying to hang four aliases on a single string so I got a yellow
> card for my efforts. The pop_stddev() is an aggregate but one I've never
> used before inside psql or sql.
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, amul sul wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:53:10
>> From: amul sul <sul_amul(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>
>> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(at)panix(dot)com>,
>> "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] what's wrong with this code?
>>
>> What is the error?
>>
>> Can I ask what is pop_stdev? Postgres has stddev_pop database function
>> not pop_stdev.
>>
>> regards,
>> Amul
>>
>>
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