2013/2/4 Kirk Wythers <wythe...@umn.edu>:
> I am looking for suggestions on aggregation techniques using a timestamp 
> column. In my case I have tried:
>
> date_trunc('hour', derived_tsoil_fifteen_min_stacked.time2),
>
> but date_truck only seems to aggregate the timestamp. I thought I could use
>
> AVG(derived_tsoil_fifteen_min_stacked.value)
>
> in combination with date_trunk, but I still get 15 minute values, not the 
> hourly average from the four 15 minute records.
>
> rowid                                                   date_truck            
>                   time2                           site    canopy  plot    
> variable        name                    value   avg
> 2010-07-07_00:00:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 00:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 00:00:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   21.06   
> 21.0599994659424
> 2010-07-07_00:15:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 00:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 00:15:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.96   
> 20.9599990844727
> 2010-07-07_00:30:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 00:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 00:30:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.88   
> 20.8799991607666
> 2010-07-07_00:45:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 00:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 00:45:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.8    
> 20.7999992370605
> 2010-07-07_01:00:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 01:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 01:00:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.72   
> 20.7199993133545
> 2010-07-07_01:15:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 01:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 01:15:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.64   
> 20.6399993896484
> 2010-07-07_01:30:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 01:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 01:30:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.55   
> 20.5499992370605
> 2010-07-07_01:45:00_b4warm_a    2010-07-07 01:00:00     1       2010-07-07 
> 01:45:00     cfc     closed  a2      tsoil_sc        tsoil_avg1_sc   20.47   
> 20.4699993133545
>
> I was tying to get two records out of this set, with the 'avg" column 
> representing the mean of the first and last four of each 15 minute records.
>
> Suggestions?

Are you using an explicit GROUP BY?

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Jason Dusek
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