Re: division by zero issue - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Guy Fraser
Subject Re: division by zero issue
Date
Msg-id 41488FCF.9080609@incentre.net
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In response to Re: division by zero issue  (Greg Donald <destiney@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: division by zero issue
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Doh...,

I messed up

This might work better.

SELECT
  tasks.task_id,
  CASE
    WHEN task_count = '0'
    THEN '0'::int4
    ELSE (task_duration * task_duration_type / task_count)
  END as hours_allocated
FROM
(
  SELECT
  FROM tasks
  LEFT JOIN user_tasks
    ON tasks.task_id = user_tasks.task_id
  WHERE tasks.task_milestone = '0'
  GROUP BY
    tasks.task_id,
    task_duration,
    task_duration_type
) as intermediate;



Greg Donald wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:01:23 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>
>>You need to put it in HAVING, instead.
>>
>>Note also this 7.4.4 bug fix:
>>
>>* Check HAVING restriction before evaluating result list of an aggregate plan
>>
>>which means that this isn't really gonna work unless you are on 7.4.5.
>>(It's fairly astonishing that no one noticed we were doing this in the
>>wrong order until recently, but no one did ...)
>>
>>
>
>Thanks, you guys are so helpful.
>
>This works great on my workstation with 7.4.5.  But what's the 7.2 way
>of doing it?  Our production server is a bit older.
>
>I also tried Mr Fraser's suggestion:
>
>SELECT
>  tasks.task_id,
>  CASE
>    WHEN task_count = '0'
>    THEN '0'::int4
>    ELSE (task_duration * task_duration_type / task_count) as hours_allocated
>  END
>FROM
>(
>  SELECT
>  FROM tasks
>  LEFT JOIN user_tasks
>    ON tasks.task_id = user_tasks.task_id
>  WHERE tasks.task_milestone = '0'
>  GROUP BY
>    tasks.task_id,
>    task_duration,
>    task_duration_type
>) as intermediate;
>
>but it's producing an error near the AS for some reason I can't tell.
>I tried wrapping it with some parentheses but it didn't help.
>
>TIA..
>
>
>

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