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Re: Calculating product from rows - (aggregate product )

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On 2009-05-04, Allan Kamau <allank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to calculate a product of a field's values of a relation, 
> this function may multiply each value and give the result as a single 
> float number.
>
> For example:
>
>
> CREATE table imaginary(id INTEGER NOT NULL, some_field FLOAT 
> NULL,primary key(id));
>
> INSERT INTO imarginary(1,0.333);INSERT INTO imarginary(2,0.667);INSERT 
> INTO imarginary(3,0.4);
>
>
> SELECT prod(some_field) FROM imarginary;
>
>
> would give 0.0888444 (which is 0.333*0.667*0.4)
>
>
> Is there an already existing function that does this.

here's one way to cheat: logarythms.

select exp(sum(ln( thiscolumn ))) from foo;

 :^)


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