Hello,
Many thanks to andreas.kretschmer for this helpful reply about how to set up a window function to perform a running
total:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-03/msg01122.php
It works perfectly with the simple test data but I've just got back to work, tried implementing it on my live data and
theresults are slightly different. My query is almost exactly the same - I've simplified by grouping by year only
ratherthan year and month:
select extract(year from signup_date),
count(email_address),
sum(count(email_address)) over (rows unbounded preceding)
from email_list group by 1 order by 1;
date_part | count | sum
-----------+-------+------
2007 | 501 | 1374
2008 | 491 | 491
2009 | 382 | 873
2010 | 66 | 1440
(4 rows)
What I'm looking for is
date_part | count | sum
-----------+-------+------
2007 | 501 | 501
2008 | 491 | 992
2009 | 382 | 1374
2010 | 66 | 1440
It seems to be adding up the counts but not in the right order.
I've also tried an explicit ORDER BY inside the partition with no difference:
select extract(year from signup_date),
count(email_address),
sum(count(email_address)) over (partition by 1 order by 1 asc rows unbounded preceding)
from email_list group by 1 order by 1;
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Regards
Oliver Kohll
oliver@agilebase.co.uk / +44(0)7814 828608 / skype:okohll
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