I'm not sure how to call what I'm trying to do, so trying to look it up didn't work very well. I would like to aggregate my table based on one column and have all the rows from another column collapsed into an array by unique ID.
| ID | some_other_value |
-------------------------
| 1 | A |
| 1 | B |
| 2 | C |
| .. | ... |
To return
| ID | values_array |
-------------------------
| 1 | {A, B} |
| 2 | {C} |
Sorry for the bad explanation, I'm really lacking the vocabulary here. Any help with writing a query that achieves what's in the example would be very much appreciated.
Try the following.
select id, array_agg(some_other_value order by some_other_value ) as values_array from <yourTableName> group by id
You can also check here.
See Aggregate Functions documentation.
SELECT
id,
array_agg(some_other_value)
FROM
the_table
GROUP BY
id;
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I'm trying to fill a table with data to test a system.
I have two tables
User
+----+----------+
| id | name |
+----+----------+
| 1 | Majikaja |
| 2 | User 2 |
| 3 | Markus |
+----+----------+
Goal
+----+----------+---------+
| id | goal | user_id |
+----+----------+---------+
I want to insert into goal one record for every user only using their IDs (they have to exists) and some fixed or random value.
I was thinking in something like this:
INSERT INTO Goal (goal, user_id) values ('Fixed value', select u.id from user u)
So it will generate:
Goal
+----+-------------+---------+
| id | goal | user_id |
+----+-------------+---------+
| 1 | Fixed value | 1 |
| 2 | Fixed value | 2 |
| 3 | Fixed value | 3 |
+----+-------------+---------+
I could just write a simple PHP script to achieve it but I wonder if is it possible to do using raw SQL only.
I have a table of users that has a column called order that represents the order in they will be elected.
So, for example, the table might look like:
| id | name | order |
|-----|--------|-------|
| 1 | John | 2 |
| 2 | Mike | 0 |
| 3 | Lisa | 1 |
So, say that now Lisa gets destroyed, I would like that in the same transaction that I destroy Lisa, I am able to update the table so the order is still consistent, so the expected result would be:
| id | name | order |
|-----|--------|-------|
| 1 | John | 1 |
| 2 | Mike | 0 |
Or, if Mike were the one to be deleted, the expected result would be:
| id | name | order |
|-----|--------|-------|
| 1 | John | 1 |
| 3 | Lisa | 0 |
How can I do this in PostgreSQL?
If you are just deleting one row, one option uses a cte and the returning clause to then trigger an update
with del as (
delete from mytable where name = 'Lisa'
returning ord
)
update mytable
set ord = ord - 1
from del d
where mytable.ord > d.ord
As a more general approach, I would really recommend trying to renumber the whole table after every delete. This is inefficient, and can get tedious for multi-rows delete.
Instead, you could build a view on top of the table:
create view myview as
select id, name, row_number() over(order by ord) ord
from mytable
I suspect this question is already well-answered but perhaps due to limited SQL vocabulary I have not managed to find what I need. I have a database with many code:description mappings in a single 'parameter' table. I would like to define a query or procedure to return the descriptions for all (or an arbitrary list of) coded values in a given 'content' table with their descriptions from the parameter table. I don't want to alter the original data, I just want to display friendly results.
Is there a standard way to do this?
Can it be accomplished with SELECT or are other statements required?
Here is a sample query for a single coded field:
SELECT TOP (5)
newid() as id,
B.BRIDGE_STATUS,
P.SHORTDESC
FROM
BRIDGE B
LEFT JOIN PARAMTRS P ON P.TABLE_NAME = 'BRIDGE'
AND P.FIELD_NAME = 'BRIDGE_STATUS'
AND P.PARMVALUE = B.BRIDGE_STATUS
ORDER BY
id
I want to produce 'decoded' results like:
| id | BRIDGE_STATUS |
|--------------------------------------|------------ |
| BABCEC1E-5FE2-46FA-9763-000131F2F688 | Active |
| 758F5201-4742-43C6-8550-000571875265 | Active |
| 5E51634C-4DD9-4B0A-BBF5-00087DF71C8B | Active |
| 0A4EA521-DE70-4D04-93B8-000CD12B7F55 | Inactive |
| 815C6C66-8995-4893-9A1B-000F00F839A4 | Proposed |
Rather than original, coded data like:
| id | BRIDGE_STATUS |
|--------------------------------------|---------------|
| F50214D7-F726-4996-9C0C-00021BD681A4 | 3 |
| 4F173E40-54DC-495E-9B84-000B446F09C3 | 3 |
| F9C216CD-0453-434B-AFA0-000C39EFA0FB | 3 |
| 5D09554E-201D-4208-A786-000C537759A1 | 1 |
| F0BDB9A4-E796-4786-8781-000FC60E200C | 4 |
but for an arbitrary number of columns.
Assume that we have a large table with a jsonb column having only json object in it. How to get a list of all the outermost keys in column ?
i.e. if the table is something like this
| id | data_column |
| ---| -----------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | {"key_1": "some_value", "key_2": "some_value"} |
| 2 | {"key_3": "some_value", "key_4": "some_value"} |
| 3 | {"key_1": "some_value", "key_4": "some_object"} |
.....
is it possible to get a result something like this
| keys |
| -----|
| key_1|
| key_2|
| key_3|
| key_4|
Yes:
SELECT jsonb_object_keys(data_column) FROM test_table;
Or if you want to remove duplicates, order and have keys as column name:
SELECT DISTINCT jsonb_object_keys(data_column) AS keys FROM test_table ORDER by keys;
jsonb_object_keys() / json_object_keys() returns the outer-most keys from the json object.
I have two tables in postgresql looks something like below. please help me with the query to insert into table 1uid column based on column name2.
table 1 table 2
|uid|name1| |uid|name2|table 1uid|
| 1 | a | | 1 | b | |
| 2 | b | | 2 | C | |
| 3 | c | | 3 | a | |
The keyword you need to look for is Update (which changes existing rows). Insert is for creating brand new rows.
But for your particular case, something along the lines of:
update table2 set table1uid = (select uid from table1 where table1.name1 = table2.name2)