Re: Re: [SQL] variables in SQL?? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Craig Johannsen
Subject Re: Re: [SQL] variables in SQL??
Date
Msg-id 399CD3DC.F028B264@home.com
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In response to variables in SQL??  ("Francisco Hernandez" <xy0xy0@earthlink.net>)
List pgsql-general
You can create a running total provided that you have a unique
sequentially increasing (or decreasing) ID for each row.  See the
following example:

create table tran(id int primary key, price dec(8,2));
insert into tran values(1,5.00);
insert into tran values(2,4.00);
insert into tran values(3,10.00);
insert into tran values(4,2.00);
insert into tran values(5,7.00);

select price, (select sum(price) from tran as d1
where d1.id <= d2.id) as "sum"
from tran as d2;

 price |  sum
-------+-------
  5.00 |  5.00
  4.00 |  9.00
 10.00 | 19.00
  2.00 | 21.00
  7.00 | 28.00
(5 rows)


Francisco wrote:

> > what im trying to do is have a Sum of a colum.. as it goes forwards with the
> > cursor..
> > like so:
> >
> > Price|Sum
> > 5|5
> > 4|9
> > 10|19
> > 2|21
> > 7|28
>

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