Re: [GENERAL] aggregate question

1998-10-22 Thread William D. McCoy
Ulf, As a partial answer to your question about statistical functions and std. deviation in particular, I have pulled out an example query that I have used in the past as an example: select lab_no, prep_no, avg(hai), max(hai), min(hai), |/((sum(hai^2)-(count(hai)::float8)*(avg(hai)^2))/count(h

[GENERAL] Bug in pg_dump/pg_dumpall handling of CONSTRAINTS?

1998-10-22 Thread Michael A. Koerber
When using "pg_dumpall" and a subsequent "psql -e" to rebuild the data base the process failed. The failure was due to the "pg_dumpall" (and "pg_dump") handling of CONSTRAINTS. Details are provided below. Is this a known bug? Is there a patch for it? tnx, mike --

Re: [GENERAL] aggregate question

1998-10-22 Thread Ulf Mehlig
Hello out there, many thanks for everybody helping with extracting month information and so on from date columns. Realizing that apparently a package with simple statistical functions/aggregates like standard deviation doesn't exist, I have to write one on my own. But, as stated earlier, I have

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with getting the right order

1998-10-22 Thread Ulf Mehlig
Generally, something like select count(vnr), enr from votes group by err order by 1 desc should work. But I tried it only with my own tables ... For referencing to the first column of the resulting table ("order by 1") you can also use select count(vnr) as the