Unfortunately, I don't understand your advice, David -
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 5:46 PM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 9:42 AM Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I am trying
>
> WITH diffs AS (
> SELECT
> gid,
> uid,
> played - LAG(played) OVER(PARTITION BY gid ORDER BY played) AS diff
> FROM moves
> WHERE uid = 1
> )
> UPDATE users SET
> avg_time = TO_CHAR(AVG(diff), 'HH24:MI')
> FROM diffs;
>
> the syntax error is unfortunately printed by PostgreSQL 10:
>
> aggregate functions are not allowed in UPDATE
So calculate the average somewhere else, put the result in a column,
and then reference that column in the SET clause.
do you suggest to add a second CTE?
Regards
Alex
