On Nov 16, 2012, at 3:52, LEA KANG <makan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a table with several lines as following; 
> 
> -    Create table mytable (type number ,  values  integer [2]) ;
> 
> -    Insert into mytable values (1,  ‘{ 10, 0 }’ );
> -    Insert into mytable values (1,  ‘{ 20, 30 }’ );
> -    Insert into mytable values (2,  ‘{30,  60}’ );
> 
> (In fact, the array size is very big (ex. values [10000]) but the size is
> fix.   In order to simplify the example, I used an array integer [2]).
> 
> I would like to obtain the average value of each index of the array column,
> values column.
> 
> Is it possible to create an aggregate function which can works as following
> ? : 
> (Suppose that avg_mytable is the aggregation function name.)
> 
> Ex1)  Select  avg_mytable (values)  from mytable ;
> 
> avg_mytable (values)  
> ------------------------           
> { 20,  30}
> 
> 
> (Explication of the results: 20 because (10+20+30)/3 , 30 because
> (0+30+60)/3)
> 
> Ex2)  Select type, avg_mytable (values)  from mytable  Group by type ;
> 
> Type  |  avg_mytable (values)  
> ---------------------------------------------
> 1        |  { 15, 15}
> 2        |  { 30, 60} 
> 
> 
> Thank you so much,
> 
> 

In a sub-query unnest the array and use generate_series to keep track of the 
array index position.  Next level perform a sum for each array index.  Next 
level calculate the average for each index.  Final level array_agg to recreate 
an array.

David J.



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