Re: repeatet summary querys per month over 5 years

Hi,
it looks like tablefunc module (extension) could help
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tablefunc.html

this could generate crosstab to summarize Your data. There are few good
examples of corsstab function which I think is a solution.

Regards,
Bartek

2012/3/15 Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(at)campbell-lange(dot)net>

> On 15/03/12, sara(dot)schaerrer(at)vetsuisse(dot)unibe(dot)ch (
> sara(dot)schaerrer(at)vetsuisse(dot)unibe(dot)ch) wrote:
> > Background: I have to summarize (count) the number of animals for the
> > categories production type, ageclass and sex per month (1. of every
> > month) over 5 years.
>
> ...
>
> > Ideally I'd generate a table with a column for every month:
> >
> > nuar ak sex jan07 feb07 ... dez11
>
> You may need a query with an outer and inner part. The inner part is a
> query that provides you with the base data which is summarised in the
> outer part.
>
> I couldn't read your query but if something like this worked:
>
> SELECT
> animal
> ,sex
> ,tochar(dater,'YYDD') as month
> FROM
> sourcetable;
>
> you can nest the query to get the sort of result you seem to need, as
> follows:
>
> SELECT
> x.animal
> ,x.sex
> ,sum(case when x.month='012001' then 1 else 0 end) as '012001'
> ,sum(case when x.month='022001' then 1 else 0 end) as '022001'
> ,sum(case when x.month='032001' then 1 else 0 end) as '032001'
> ...
> FROM (
> SELECT
> animal
> ,sex
> ,tochar(dater,'MMYY') as month
> FROM
> sourcetable;
> ) x
> GROUP BY
> x.animal
> ,x.sex;
>
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