Oops... That should, of course, be *inconsistency*.
On 2/8/06, Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Did you try sum(a)/count(a) instead of avg(a). > > > > SQLite version 3.3.3 > > Enter ".help" for instructions > > sqlite> create table t (a integer, b real); > > sqlite> insert into t values (3, 3); > > sqlite> insert into t values (3, 3); > > sqlite> insert into t values (4, 4); > > sqlite> select avg(a), sum(a)/count(a) from t; > > 3.33333333333333|3 > > > >Kind of seems wrong, doesn't it.... > >-- > >D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > Richard, > > This is a good point. This is exactly the kind of consistency that the > standard developers try hard to eliminate. It's probably one of the > reasons the standard says the average of an integer column should be an > integer (or words to that effect). > > Dennis Cote >
