On Thursday 12 February 2009 12:06:41 am Paolo Saudin wrote: > Hi, > > I have 14 tables filled with meteorological data, one record per parameter > per hour. The id field holds the parameter type (1=temperature, 2=humidity > ...) My problem is that for short periods (maybe one week, one month) there > are two stations with the same data, I mean the temperature of table1 is > equal to the humidity of table3. I need to discover those cases. Before I can start to answer this I need some clarification. How can temperature and humidity be the same data? > > I could pick one record in the first station and then compare it with the > ones in the other tables for all the parameters at that particular date. If > two records are equals (it probably happens) I must then check the next one > in the timeserie. If the second record is equal too, then probably the two > series may be equals and I must raise an alert from my application. Is > there a better and faster way to perform such a check ? > > -- tables > CREATE TABLE table1 > ( > fulldate timestamp, > id smallint NOT NULL, > meanvalue real > ) WITH (OIDS=FALSE); > --..................... > --..................... > CREATE TABLE table14 > ( > fulldate timestamp, > id smallint NOT NULL, > meanvalue real > ) WITH (OIDS=FALSE); > -- > -- inserts > insert into table1(select > ('2009-01-01'::timestamp + interval '1 hour' * s.a)::timestamp, > 1::smallint, round(cast(random() as numeric), 1)::real > from generate_series(0,1000) as s(a) > ); > -- > insert into table2(select > ('2009-01-01'::timestamp + interval '1 hour' * s.a)::timestamp, > 1::smallint, round(cast(random() as numeric), 1)::real > from generate_series(0,1000) as s(a) > ); > -- > -- same data as table 1 -- MUST BE FOUND BY THE CKECK ROUTINE > insert into table3(select fulldate, id, meanvalue from table1); > > > Thank in advance, > Paolo Saudin -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general