[GENERAL] interval questions

2000-06-01 Thread Michael Blakeley
I hope someone on the list can suggest a solution for me - given a table like CREATE TABLE EVENTS( stamp date, id varchar(16), event varchar(128) ); I'm trying to find the average age of the records. I've gotten as far as: SELECT DISTINCT ON(id) age(stamp) FROM EVENTS; Now, I need the

Re: [GENERAL] interval questions

2000-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Blakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to find the average age of the records. I've gotten as far as: SELECT DISTINCT ON(id) age(stamp) FROM EVENTS; Now, I need the DISTINCT ON(id), but that means I can't simply avg() the age: ERROR: Attribute events.id must be

Re: [GENERAL] interval questions

2000-06-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Blakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000601 19:09] wrote: I hope someone on the list can suggest a solution for me - given a table like CREATE TABLE EVENTS( stamp date, id varchar(16), event varchar(128) ); I'm trying to find the average age of the records. I've gotten as far as:

Re: [GENERAL] interval questions

2000-06-01 Thread Michael Blakeley
At 10:21 PM -0500 6/1/2000, Ed Loehr wrote: Michael Blakeley wrote: CREATE TABLE EVENTS( stamp date, id varchar(16), event varchar(128) ); I'm trying to find the average age of the records. I've gotten as far as: SELECT DISTINCT ON(id) age(stamp) FROM EVENTS; Now, I need the