Re: conditional aggregates - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Marcin Krawczyk
Subject Re: conditional aggregates
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Msg-id AANLkTimkN1DZS44p_47MJJ85aWmvQybxh3m32=eHuxsE@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: conditional aggregates  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Yeah I know but I'm having problems creating sfunc fuction for the aggregate.


regards
mk


2010/12/8 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Hello

use a CASE statement

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-conditional.html

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2010/12/8 Marcin Krawczyk <jankes.mk@gmail.com>:
> Hi list,
> Can anyone advise me on creating an aggregate that would take additional
> parameter as a condition ? For example, say I have a table like this
> id;value
> 1;45
> 2;13
> 3;0
> 4;90
> I'd like to do something like this
> SELECT min_some_cond_aggregate(value,0) FROM table
> to get the minimal value from table greater than 0, in this case 13.
> I can't do SELECT min(value) FROM table WHERE value > 0 as this will mess my
> other computations. My current solution involves a function operating on the
> output of array_accum from the docs, but I'm looking for more elegant
> solution.
> Is this possible at all ? I'm running 8.1.
>
> regards
> mk
>

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