I know nested aggregates aren't allowed, or at least not implicitly.
Is there a way to get around this.?
Or does someone feel like droppng some other hints this way?
Problem : (not really)
I have a table (id, date, ordertype, etc...)
Based on the type i want to be able to get the counts of how many people
have ordered from a certain type of ordertype.
so i.
select id, count(*) as cnt from T1 where ordertype = 'Q' group by id;
This will give me the number of times each id has ordered type Q.
I need a way to find out how many times, or how many ids have ordered type
Q once, twice, thrice, etc.
I can accomplish this by doing a select into temp with the above
statement. And then doing.
Select cnt, count(*) from TEMP group by cnt;
This really doesn't seem the most efficient way to do this by me. And i
know nested aggs aren't allowed (or don't like me). And i'm trying to
fidn a way to eliminate the insert / select step.
so the main question is.
how do i accomplish ths better? can anyone help?
and how can i implement it as a subselect that will work?
will that be more efficient.
Sorry if the question's seem simple / trivial. But it's been gnawing at
me for a while that this doesn't seem to be the most efficient way to
handle this select. And i can't figure out another way that postgres will
accept.
Thanks in advance.
.jtp
