Re: avg(interval)

From: "Aaron Bono" <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com>
To: Joe <dev(at)freedomcircle(dot)net>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jeremiah Elliott" <geek00(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: avg(interval)
Date: 2006-06-27 00:53:09
Message-ID: bf05e51c0606261753r68d5b2b3s1021fdc0a382614@mail.gmail.com
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Right, the 23 is just less than 1 day, not 23 days.

The good news: your query is working!

-Aaron

On 6/26/06, Joe <dev(at)freedomcircle(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jeremiah Elliott" <geek00(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> however if i don't average them here is what i get:
> >> "7 days 22:24:50.62311";"*2420"
> >> "9 days 22:21:02.683393";"*2420"
> >> "23:21:35.458459";"*2420"
> >> "4 days 22:47:41.749756";"*2420"
> >> "3 days 06:05:59.456947";"*2420"
> >
> >> which should average to just over nine days -
> >
> > Uh ... how do you arrive at that conclusion? I haven't done the math,
> > but by eyeball an average of four-something days doesn't look out of
> > line for those values.
>
> It seems he's calculating (7 + 9 + 23 + 4 + 3) / 5 ...
>
> Joe
>
>

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