Le jeudi 15 novembre 2012 à 19:10 +0100, Myoung-Ah KANG a écrit : > > > I have a table with several lines as following; > > > > - Create table mytable (type number , values integer [2]) ; > > > > - Insert into mytable values (1, ‘{ 10, 0 }’ ); > > - Insert into mytable values (1, ‘{ 20, 30 }’ ); > > - Insert into mytable values (2, ‘{30, 60}’ ); > > > > (In fact, the array size is very big (ex. values [10000]) but the size > is fix. In order to simplify the example, I used an array integer > [2]). > > > > > > I would like to obtain the average value of each index of values > column. > -- create new 'expanded' table with values unnested select id, generate_series(1,2), unnest(values) into expanded from mytable ; -- calculate the average for each value of the array -- and re-aggregate the result into an array with t1 as ( select generate_series, avg(unnest) as average from expanded group by generate_series order by generate_series ) select array_agg(average) from t1; array_agg ------------------------------------------- {20.0000000000000000,30.0000000000000000} > > > Is it possible to create an aggregate function which can works as > following ? : > > (Suppose that avg_mytable is the aggregation function name.) > > > > Ex1) Select avg_mytable (values) from mytable ; > > > > avg_mytable (values) > > ------------------------ > > { 20, 30} > > > > > > (- Explication of the results: 20 because (10+20+30)/3 , 30 because (0 > +30+60)/3) > > > > > > Ex2) Select type, avg_mytable (values) from mytable Group by type ; > > > > Type | avg_mytable (values) > > --------------------------------------------- > > 1 | { 15, 15} > > 2 | { 30, 60} > > > > > > I searched in the documentation for “array functions” but I could not > find functions useful for me... > > > > Thank you so much, > > > > Lea > > -- Vincent Veyron http://marica.fr/ Logiciel de gestion des assurances sinistres et des dossiers contentieux pour le service juridique -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general