Re: problem with sql - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Subject Re: problem with sql
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Msg-id 20020601103511.651FC1B01@druid.net
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In response to problem with sql  ("Ricardo Javier Aranibar León"<ricardo_jal@hotmail.com>)
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On May 31, 2002 08:32 pm, Ricardo Javier Aranibar León wrote:
> I think that my head will exploit, I can't resolve this problem and I hope
> that somebody can help me.

Can't have that.  It might leave a mess in our nice, clean mailing list.  :-)

> My data base stores the statistics of ping that are generated every minute.
> For a day I have 1440 registers, I want to group them every 5 minutes.
> I use this:
> hb#select sum(tras), sum(lost), avg(min), avg(prom), avg(max) from simon
> where fecha='2002-05-31' and ip='166.114.214.22' and hora between '00:00'
> and '00:05';
>
> This work for five register, but i like that this function as a bucle every
> 5 minutes for example in the next report the interval of hora between
> '00:05' and '00:10' the next hora between '00:10' and '00:15'.....until
> arrive hora between '23:55' and '24:00'

Well, how accurate does this have to be?  Are you just trying to see some 
statisticle correlations or do you need to actually count each bing once and 
only once for some sort of accounting purposes.  I assume the former in which 
case the following may be what you are looking for..
...where hora between 'NOW'::timestamp - '5 MINUTE'::interval and 'NOW.

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