On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.du...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 

Here is what I have in the GROUP BY clause

GROUP BY
        date_trunc('hour', derived_tsoil_fifteen_min_stacked.time2),
        derived_tsoil_fifteen_min_stacked.time2,
        data_key.site,
        data_key.canopy,
        data_key.variable_name,
        data_key.plot



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