Re: Incremental sum ? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Incremental sum ?
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Msg-id 4526.993229126@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Incremental sum ?  ("Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>)
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"Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu> writes:
> And here's the working example: not the need to GROUP BY, and <=
> to get the current payment.

> select cust_id,invoice_id,val,paid, (select (sum(val) - sum(paid))
> from invoices_not_paid where cust_id= i.cust_id and invoice_id <=
> i.invoice_id group by cust_id) as balance  from invoices_not_paid i;

Actually I think you could leave off the inner GROUP BY --- won't there
always be exactly one group, since only one value of inner cust_id is
selected?
        regards, tom lane


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