Basically I have a table called cities which looks like this:
+------+-----------+---------+----------+----------------+
| id | name | lat | lng | submitted_by |
|------+-----------+---------+----------+----------------|
| 1 | Pyongyang | 39.0392 | 125.7625 | 15 |
| 2 | Oslo | 59.9139 | 10.7522 | 8 |
| 3 | Hebron | 31.5326 | 35.0998 | 8 |
| 4 | Hebron | 31.5326 | 35.0998 | 10 |
| 5 | Paris | 48.8566 | 2.3522 | 12 |
| 6 | Hebron | 31.5326 | 35.0998 | 7 |
+------+-----------+---------+----------+----------------+
Desired result:
+-----------+---------+
| name | count |
|-----------+---------|
| Hebron | 3 |
| Pyongyang | 1 |
| Oslo | 1 |
| Paris | 1 |
| Total | 6 | <-- The tricky part
+-----------+---------+
In other words, what I need to do is SELECT the SUM of the COUNT in the query I'm currently using:
SELECT name, count(name)::int FROM cities GROUP BY name;
But apparently nested aggregated functions are not allowed in PostgreSQL. I'm guessing I need to use ROLLUP in some way but I can't seem to get it right.
Thanks for the help.
You need to UNION ALL the total sum.
WITH ROLLUP works by summing up the total for every group separate and can't be used here.
CREATE TABLE cities (
"id" INTEGER,
"name" VARCHAR(9),
"lat" FLOAT,
"lng" FLOAT,
"submitted_by" INTEGER
);
INSERT INTO cities
("id", "name", "lat", "lng", "submitted_by")
VALUES
('1', 'Pyongyang', '39.0392', '125.7625', '15'),
('2', 'Oslo', '59.9139', '10.7522', '8'),
('3', 'Hebron', '31.5326', '35.0998', '8'),
('4', 'Hebron', '31.5326', '35.0998', '10'),
('5', 'Paris', '48.8566', '2.3522', '12'),
('6', 'Hebron', '31.5326', '35.0998', '7');
SELECT name, COUNT(name)::int FROM cities GROUP BY name
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Total', COUNT(*) FROM cities
name | count
:-------- | ----:
Hebron | 3
Pyongyang | 1
Oslo | 1
Paris | 1
Total | 6
db<>fiddle here
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I have a dataset that is similar to this. I need to pick out the most recent metadata (greater execution time = more recent) for a client including the sum of quantities and the latest execution time and meta where the quantity > 0
| Name | Quantity | Metadata | Execution time |
| -------- | ---------|----------|----------------|
| Neil | 1 | [1,3] | 4 |
| James | 1 | [2,18] | 5 |
| Neil | 1 | [4, 1] | 6 |
| Mike | 1 | [5, 42] | 7 |
| James | -1 | Null | 8 |
| Neil | -1 | Null | 9 |
Eg the query needs to return:
| Name | Summed Quantity | Metadata | Execution time |
| -------- | ----------------|----------|----------------|
| James | 0 | [2,18] | 5 |
| Neil | 1 | [4, 1] | 6 |
| Mike | 1 | [5, 42] | 7 |
My query doesn't quite work as it's not returning the sum of the quantities correctly.
SELECT
distinct on (name) name,
(
SELECT
cast(
sum(quantity) as int
)
) as summed_quantity,
meta,
execution_time
FROM
table
where
quantity > 0
group by
name,
meta,
execution_time
order by
name,
execution_time desc;
This query gives a result of
| Name | Summed Quantity | Metadata | Execution time |
| -------- | ----------------|----------|----------------|
| James | 1 | [2,18] | 5 |
| Neil | 1 | [4, 1] | 6 |
| Mike | 1 | [5, 42] | 7 |
ie it's just taking the quantity > 0 from the where and not adding up the quantities in the sub query (i assume because of the distinct clause) I'm unsure how to fix my query to produce the desired output.
This can be achieved using window functions (hence with a single pass of the data)
select
name
, sum_qty
, metadata
, execution_time
from (
select
*
, sum(Quantity) over(partition by name) sum_qty
, row_number() over(partition by name, case when quantity > 0 then 1 else 0 end
order by Execution_time DESC) as rn
from mytable
) d
where rn = 1 and quantity > 0
order by name
result
+-------+---------+----------+----------------+
| name | sum_qty | metadata | execution_time |
+-------+---------+----------+----------------+
| James | 0 | [2,18] | 5 |
| Mike | 1 | [5,42] | 7 |
| Neil | 1 | [4,1] | 6 |
+-------+---------+----------+----------------+
db<>fiddle here
The example above can be done on a SQL Server. It is a function that performs the calculation on another table while getting the current table field Id to list data from other table, return a single value.
Question: how to do the exact thing with PostgreSQL
SELECT TOP(5) * FROM Artists;
+------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+
| ArtistId | ArtistName | ActiveFrom | CountryId |
|------------+------------------+--------------+-------------|
| 1 | Iron Maiden | 1975-12-25 | 3 |
| 2 | AC/DC | 1973-01-11 | 2 |
| 3 | Allan Holdsworth | 1969-01-01 | 3 |
| 4 | Buddy Rich | 1919-01-01 | 6 |
| 5 | Devin Townsend | 1993-01-01 | 8 |
+------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+
SELECT TOP(5) * FROM Albums;
+-----------+------------------------+---------------+------------+-----------+
| AlbumId | AlbumName | ReleaseDate | ArtistId | GenreId |
|-----------+------------------------+---------------+------------+-----------|
| 1 | Powerslave | 1984-09-03 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Powerage | 1978-05-05 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Singing Down the Lane | 1956-01-01 | 6 | 3 |
| 4 | Ziltoid the Omniscient | 2007-05-21 | 5 | 1 |
| 5 | Casualties of Cool | 2014-05-14 | 5 | 1 |
+-----------+------------------------+---------------+------------+-----------+
The function
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufn_AlbumCount] (#ArtistId int)
RETURNS smallint
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #AlbumCount int;
SELECT #AlbumCount = COUNT(AlbumId)
FROM Albums
WHERE ArtistId = #ArtistId;
RETURN #AlbumCount;
END;
GO
Now, (at SQL Server), after update the first table fields with ALTER TABLE Artists ADD AlbumCount AS dbo.ufn_AlbumCount(ArtistId); whe can list and get the following result.
+------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+
| ArtistId | ArtistName | ActiveFrom | CountryId | AlbumCount |
|------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+--------------|
| 1 | Iron Maiden | 1975-12-25 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | AC/DC | 1973-01-11 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Allan Holdsworth | 1969-01-01 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | Buddy Rich | 1919-01-01 | 6 | 1 |
| 5 | Devin Townsend | 1993-01-01 | 8 | 3 |
| 6 | Jim Reeves | 1948-01-01 | 6 | 1 |
| 7 | Tom Jones | 1963-01-01 | 4 | 3 |
| 8 | Maroon 5 | 1994-01-01 | 6 | 0 |
| 9 | The Script | 2001-01-01 | 5 | 1 |
| 10 | Lit | 1988-06-26 | 6 | 0 |
+------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+
but how to achieve this on postgresql?
Postgres doesn't support "virtual" computed column (i.e. computed columns that are generated at runtime), so there is no exact equivalent. The most efficient solution is a view that counts this:
create view artists_with_counts
as
select a.*,
coalesce(t.album_count, 0) as album_count
from artists a
left join (
select artist_id, count(*) as album_count
from albums
group by artist_id
) t on a.artist_id = t.artist_id;
Another option is to create a function that can be used as a "virtual column" in a select - but as this is done row-by-row, this will be substantially slower than the view.
create function album_count(p_artist artists)
returns bigint
as
$$
select count(*)
from albums a
where a.artist_id = p_artist.artist_id;
$$
language sql
stable;
Then you can include this as a column:
select a.*, a.album_count
from artists a;
Using the function like that, requires to prefix the function reference with the table alias (alternatively, you can use album_count(a))
Online example
Table name: people
+----+------+-------------+-------+
| id | name | city | state |
+----+------+-------------+-------+
| 1 | Joe | Los Angeles | CA |
+----+------+-------------+-------+
| 2 | Jill | Miami | FL |
+----+------+-------------+-------+
| 3 | Asa | Portland | OR |
+----+------+-------------+-------+
Table name: pets
+----+----------+------+
| id | pet_name | type |
+----+----------+------+
| 1 | Spike | dog |
+----+----------+------+
| 1 | Fluffy | cat |
+----+----------+------+
| 2 | Oscar | dog |
+----+----------+------+
How would I join the two tables above to include a column containing JSON of results matched in the 'pets' table (PostgreSQL)?
+----+------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| id | name | pets |
+----+------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1 | Joe | [{name:'Spike', type:'dog'}, {name: 'Fluffy', type:'cat'}] |
+----+------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2 | Jill | [{name:'Oscar', type:'dog'}] |
+----+------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| 3 | Asa | [] |
+----+------+------------------------------------------------------------+
Use json_agg() to aggregate over json-objects:
SELECT people.id
, name
, json_agg(
CASE WHEN pet_name IS NOT NULL THEN
json_build_object(
'name', pet_name
, 'type', type
)
END
)
FROM people
LEFT JOIN pets ON people.id = pets.id
GROUP BY
people.id
, name
ORDER BY
people.id;
I'm relatively new to PostgreSQL and trying to figure out how to solve the following scenario. Let's say I have three tables:
stores
| store_id |
|----------|
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
products
| product_id |
|------------|
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
store_has_product
| store_id | product_id |
|----------|------------|
| 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 |
And now I'm trying to build a query to join all products to the stores table and group them in an array, so that I have an output like this:
| store_id | products |
|----------|-----------|
| 1 | {3, 2, 1} |
| 2 | {2} |
| 3 | {3, 1, 2} |
I know that Arrays are possible with PostgreSQL, but I don't get how to write such a query and probably already spent too much time thinking about a solution.
Thanks for your help!
If you are using version 8.4 or later you can use array_agg:
SELECT store_id, array_agg(product_id::text) as products
FROM store_has_product
GROUP BY store_id
I am working with PostgreSQL 9.3, and I have this:
PARENT_TABLE
ID | NAME
1 | N_A
2 | N_B
3 | N_C
CHILD_TABLE
ID | PARENT_TABLE_ID | KEY | VALUE
1 | 1 | K_A | V_A
2 | 1 | K_B | V_B
3 | 1 | K_C | V_C
5 | 2 | K_A | V_D
6 | 2 | K_C | V_E
7 | 3 | K_A | V_F
8 | 3 | K_B | V_G
9 | 3 | K_C | V_H
Note that I might add K_D in KEY's, it's completely dynamic.
What I want is a query that returns me the following:
QUERY_TABLE
ID | NAME | K_A | K_B | K_C | others K_...
1 | N_A | V_A | V_B | V_C | ...
2 | N_B | V_D | | V_E | ...
3 | N_C | V_F | V_G | V_H | ...
Is this possible to do ? If so, how ?
Since there can be values missing, you need the "safe" form of crosstab() with the column names as second parameter:
SELECT * FROM crosstab(
'SELECT p.id, p.name, c.key, c."value"
FROM parent_table p
LEFT JOIN child_table c ON c.parent_table_id = p.id
ORDER BY 1'
,$$VALUES ('K_A'::text), ('K_B'), ('K_C')$$)
AS t (id int, name text, k_a text, k_b text, k_c text; -- use actual data types
Details in this related answer:
PostgreSQL Crosstab Query
About adding "extra" columns:
Pivot on Multiple Columns using Tablefunc