Hy Coders, i got a question.
i have a table1 with 2 colums (timestamp,value1) and 3 rows. A table 2 with 2 columes( timestamp, value2) with 1000 rows
Table1 are LAb values from samples Table2 are values from an online measurement with 3min interval.
i want to mean all values2 from table 2 in an interval from timestamp1 = timestamp2 + 1 hour before
has anyone an idea?
You can use a condition like:
t2.timestamp BETWEEN t1.timestamp - '1 hour'::interval AND t1.timestamp
This condition can be used to JOIN the tables like:
SELECT * -- the columns you need
FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2 t2
ON t2.timestamp BETWEEN t1.timestamp - '1 hour'::interval AND t1.timestamp
To get the average of values from table2, you can turn on aggregation:
SELECT t1.timestamp, t1.value, AVG(t2.value) avg_value2
FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2 t2
ON t2.timestamp BETWEEN t1.timestamp - '1 hour'::interval AND t1.timestamp
GROUP BY t1.timestamp, t1.value
SUMMARY: I have two data tables: table1 and table2. I want to join them in the following way:
- a unique id value that is the same within both tables
- ALSO, there is a time value in both tables that I need to be within a certain vicinity of one another (e.g. 30 seconds)
- However, the data in both tables is within YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS form
I have tried to do the following:
SELECT * FROM table1 AS t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2 t2
ON t1.id = t2.id
AND t2.message_time BETWEEN t1.time + INTERVAL '20 seconds' AND t1.time - INTERVAL '20 seconds'
but it keeps printing out the same row over and over again when I am looping through the result in psycopg2. Is there a better way to do this? Is the query referring to the respective t1.properly?
You need to switch the BETWEEN parameters:
BETWEEN smaller_value AND greater_value
So your join condition needs to be:
ON t1.id = t2.id
AND t2.message_time BETWEEN t1.message_time - interval '20 seconds' AND t1.message_time + interval '20 seconds'
demo:db<>fiddle
I want my query to have a dynamic date. The way it is written now, I would have to manually change the date every time. Please see the following as an example:
(select*
from table2
where table2.begin_timestamp::date = '2015-04-01')as start
left outer join
(Select *
from table 1
where opened_at::date >= ('2015-04-01' - 15)
and opened_at::date <= '2015-04-01’)
I don't want '2015-04-01' to be hard-coded. I want to run this query over and over for a series of dates.
Using normal joins, you can do this in an on clause or where clause but not inside the subquery. That leads to logic like this:
from (select*
from table2
) start left outer join
table 1
on opened_at::date >= table2.begin_timestamp::date - interval '15 day' and
opened_at::date <= table2.begin_timestamp::date
I'm not a postgres developer but I think you can adapt a technique from the sql server world called "tally tables".
Esentially your goal is to join day d and the window of days that are at most 15 days greater than it.
You can use something like
SELECT * FROM generate_series('2015-04-01'::timestamp,
'2015-04-30 00:00', '1 days');
To generate a date sequence and from there you can write something like
select *
from table a
join generate_series('2015-04-01'::timestamp,'2015-04-30','1 days') s(o)
on a.begin_timestamp::date = s.o
join table2 b
on a.opened_at>= b.begin_timestamp::date - interval '15 days'
and opened_at::date <= table2.begintimestamp::date
Essentially, instead of looping you use a series of the dates between the beginning of the interval and the end of the range to produce the results you are after.
I have a table which contains a timezone offset, +1, -7, +5 etc.
I have another, joinable, table which contains logging information including a datetime.
I would like to select out the datetime from the second table with the offset added on to it using for example, INTERVAL '1 hours', INTERVAL '-7 hours' etc.
My psuedocode would be something like:
SELECT l.status, l.inserted + INTERVAL (coalesce(timezone_offset, '0')||' hours' ) AS inserted FROM log l
LEFT OUTER JOIN users u on u.usersid = l.usersid
LEFT OUTER JOIN companies c on c.companiesid = u.companiesid
WHERE l.usersid=?
This doesn't work, but I can't figure out how to make it work in PostgreSQL 8.3.
Any ideas?
It turns out you can multiply an INTERVAL by a number. So if I create an INTERVAL of '1 hours' and multiply that by the stored offset, that will work, yielding:
SELECT l.status, l.inserted + (INTERVAL '1 hours' * coalesce(timezone_offset, '0')) FROM log as l
LEFT OUTER JOIN users u on u.usersid = l.usersid
LEFT OUTER JOIN companies c on c.companiesid = u.companiesid
WHERE l.usersid=?
et voila!
You can also use concatenation, so (l.inserted || ' hours')::INTERVAL will also work.
I have my measurement data stored into the following structure:
CREATE TABLE measurements(
measured_at TIMESTAMPTZ,
val INTEGER
);
I already know that using
(a) date_trunc('hour',measured_at)
AND
(b) generate_series
I would be able to aggregate my data by:
microseconds,
milliseconds
.
.
.
But is it possible to aggregate the data by 5 minutes or let's say an arbitrary amount of seconds? Is it possible to aggregate measured data by an arbitrary multiple of seconds?
I need the data aggregated by different time resolutions to feed them into a FFT or an AR-Model in order to see possible seasonalities.
You can generate a table of "buckets" by adding intervals created by generate_series(). This SQL statement will generate a table of five-minute buckets for the first day (the value of min(measured_at)) in your data.
select
(select min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + ( n || ' minutes')::interval start_time,
(select min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + ((n+5) || ' minutes')::interval end_time
from generate_series(0, (24*60), 5) n
Wrap that statement in a common table expression, and you can join and group on it as if it were a base table.
with five_min_intervals as (
select
(select min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + ( n || ' minutes')::interval start_time,
(select min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + ((n+5) || ' minutes')::interval end_time
from generate_series(0, (24*60), 5) n
)
select f.start_time, f.end_time, avg(m.val) avg_val
from measurements m
right join five_min_intervals f
on m.measured_at >= f.start_time and m.measured_at < f.end_time
group by f.start_time, f.end_time
order by f.start_time
Grouping by an arbitrary number of seconds is similar--use date_trunc().
A more general use of generate_series() lets you avoid guessing the upper limit for five-minute buckets. In practice, you'd probably build this as a view or a function. You might get better performance from a base table.
select
(select min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + ( n || ' minutes')::interval start_time,
(select min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + ((n+5) || ' minutes')::interval end_time
from generate_series(0, ((select max(measured_at)::date - min(measured_at)::date from measurements) + 1)*24*60, 5) n;
Catcall has a great answer. My example of using it demonstrates having fixed buckets - in this case 30 minute intervals starting at midnight. It also shows that there can be one extra bucket generated in Catcall's first version and how to eliminate it. I wanted exactly 48 buckets in a day. In my problem, observations have separate date and time columns and I want to average the observations within a 30 minute period across the month for a number of different services.
with intervals as (
select
(n||' minutes')::interval as start_time,
((n+30)|| ' minutes')::interval as end_time
from generate_series(0, (23*60+30), 30) n
)
select i.start_time, o.service, avg(o.o)
from
observations o right join intervals i
on o.time >= i.start_time and o.time < i.end_time
where o.date between '2013-01-01' and '2013-01-31'
group by i.start_time, i.end_time, o.service
order by i.start_time
How about
SELECT MIN(val),
EXTRACT(epoch FROM measured_at) / EXTRACT(epoch FROM INTERVAL '5 min') AS int
FROM measurements
GROUP BY int
where '5 min' can be any expression supported by INTERVAL
The following will give you buckets of any size, even if they don't aline well with a nice minute/hour/whatever boundary. The value "300" is for a 5 minute grouping, but any value can be substituted:
select measured_at,
val,
(date_trunc('seconds', (measured_at - timestamptz 'epoch') / 300) * 300 + timestamptz 'epoch') as aligned_measured_at
from measurements;
You can then use whatever aggregate you need around "val", and use "group by aligned_measured_at" as required.
This is based on Mike Sherrill's answer, except that it uses timestamp intervals instead of separate start/end columns.
with intervals as (
select tstzrange(s, s + '5 minutes') das_interval
from (select generate_series(min(lower(time_range)), max(upper(time_rage)), '5 minutes') s
from your_table) x)
select das_interval, your_table.*
from your_table
right join intervals on time_range && das_interval
order by das_interval;
From PostgreSQL v14 on, you can use the date_bin function for that:
SELECT date_bin(
INTERVAL '5 minutes',
measured_at,
TIMSTAMPTZ '2000-01-01'
),
sum(val)
FROM measurements
GROUP BY 1;
I wanted to look at the past 24 hours of data and count things in hourly increments. I started Cat Recall's solution, which is pretty slick. It's bound to the data, though, rather than just what's happened in the past 24H. So I refactored and ended up with something pretty close to Julian's solution, but with more CTE. So it's sort of the marriage of the 2 answers.
WITH interval_query AS (
SELECT (ts ||' hour')::INTERVAL AS hour_interval
FROM generate_series(0,23) AS ts
), time_series AS (
SELECT date_trunc('hour', now()) + INTERVAL '60 min' * ROUND(date_part('minute', now()) / 60.0) - interval_query.hour_interval AS start_time
FROM interval_query
), time_intervals AS (
SELECT start_time, start_time + '1 hour'::INTERVAL AS end_time
FROM time_series ORDER BY start_time
), reading_counts AS (
SELECT f.start_time, f.end_time, br.minor, count(br.id) readings
FROM beacon_readings br
RIGHT JOIN time_intervals f
ON br.reading_timestamp >= f.start_time AND br.reading_timestamp < f.end_time AND br.major = 4
GROUP BY f.start_time, f.end_time, br.minor
ORDER BY f.start_time, br.minor
)
SELECT * FROM reading_counts
Note that any additional limiting I wanted in the final query needed to be done in the RIGHT JOIN. I'm not suggesting this is necessarily the best (or even a good approach), but it is something I'm running with (at least at the moment) in a dashboard.
The Timescale extension for PostgreSQL gives the ability to group by arbitrary time intervals. The function is called time_bucket() and has the same syntax as the date_trunc() function but takes an interval instead of a time precision as first parameter. Here you can find its API Docs. This is an example:
SELECT
time_bucket('5 minutes', observation_time) as bucket,
device_id,
avg(metric) as metric_avg,
max(metric) - min(metric) as metric_spread
FROM
device_readings
GROUP BY bucket, device_id;
You may also take a look at the continuous aggregate views if you want the 'grouped by an interval' views be updated automatically with new ingested data and if you want to query these views on a frequent basis. This can save you a lot of resources and will make your queries a lot faster.
I've taken a synthesis of all the above to try and come up with something slightly easier to use;
create or replace function interval_generator(start_ts timestamp with TIME ZONE, end_ts timestamp with TIME ZONE, round_interval INTERVAL)
returns TABLE(start_time timestamp with TIME ZONE, end_time timestamp with TIME ZONE) as $$
BEGIN
return query
SELECT
(n) start_time,
(n + round_interval) end_time
FROM generate_series(date_trunc('minute', start_ts), end_ts, round_interval) n;
END
$$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
This function is a timestamp abstraction of Mikes answer, which (IMO) makes things a little cleaner, especially if you're generating queries on the client end.
Also using an inner join gets rid of the sea of NULLs that appeared previously.
with intervals as (select * from interval_generator(NOW() - INTERVAL '24 hours' , NOW(), '30 seconds'::INTERVAL))
select f.start_time, m.session_id, m.metric, min(m.value) min_val, avg(m.value) avg_val, max(m.value) max_val
from ts_combined as m
inner JOIN intervals f
on m.time >= f.start_time and m.time < f.end_time
GROUP BY f.start_time, f.end_time, m.metric, m.session_id
ORDER BY f.start_time desc
(Also for my purposes I added in a few more aggregation fields)
Perhaps, you can extract(epoch from measured_at) and go from that?