Hi ,

you can use GROUP BY , at the expense of adding one more column of SERIAL data type,

say,

select * from t_a  limit 10;
access_log=# SELECT * from t_a   limit 15;

 sno | value
-----+-------
   1 |  4533
   2 |  2740
   3 |  9970

   4 |  6445
   5 |  2220
   6 |  2301

   7 |  6847
   8 |  5739
   9 |  5286

  10 |  5556
  11 |  9309
  12 |  9552

  13 |  8589
  14 |  5935
  15 |  2382
(15 rows)

if you want avg for every third item you can use:

access_log=# SELECT avg(value) from t_a group by (1+(sno-1)/3)  limit 5;  

      avg
-----------------
 5747.6666666667
 3655.3333333333
 5957.3333333333
 8139.0000000000
 5635.3333333333
(5 rows)

you can replace 3 in the SQL with any number for grouping that many records.
if you need  MEAN , STDDEV , MAX, MIN  etc you can use approprite AGGREGATE that PGSQL 
supports
for numbers eg for MAX 

access_log=# SELECT MAX(value) from t_a group by (1+(sno-1)/3)  limit 5;
 max
------
 9970
 6445
 6847
 9552
 8589
(5 rows)

Regds
MAlz.






On Thursday 04 July 2002 00:02, teknokrat wrote:
> In my database i have values recorded in one minute intervals. I would
> like a query that can get me results for other time intervals. For
> example - return maximum value in each 3 minute interval. Any ideas
> how i can do this with sql? I tried writing a procedure in plsql but i
> am told it does not support tuples as output. I can get the all the
> one minute intervals and process them to get me three minute intervals
> in my application but i would rather not do the expensive call for the
> one minute intervals in the first place due to the large number of
> data. any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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