Thanks Paul, I guess I'm not sure how a generate_series between 0 to 6
would solve this problem. Wouldn't I have to generate a series based on the
date range (by day) and then group by DOW _after_ that? Can you give me an
example of how I'd do it with a series based on 0 to 6?

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Paul Jungwirth <p...@illuminatedcomputing.com
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> > I'm not sure how to create a result where I get the average number of
> > new users per day of the week. My issues are that days that did not
> > have any new users will not be factored into the average
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> This is a pretty common problem with time-series queries when there is
> sparse data. My go-to solution is to use generate_series---in your case
> from 0 to 6---then do a left join from there to your actual data.
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