Re: Need to subtract values between previous and current row

From: Joe <dev(at)freedomcircle(dot)net>
To: Partha Guha Roy <partha(dot)guha(dot)roy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need to subtract values between previous and current row
Date: 2006-12-15 13:05:35
Message-ID: 1166187935.691.2.camel@pampa
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On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 18:27 +0600, Partha Guha Roy wrote:
> I have a table that contains data like this:
>
> ID ATIME (MM/dd/yyyy)
> == ====
> 1 10/12/2006
> 2 10/14/2006
> 3 10/18/2006
> 4 10/22/2006
> 5 10/30/2006
>
> Now I need a query that will subtract atime of row 1 from row 2, row2
> from row3 and so on...
>
> Can anyone please help?

How about something like this

select x.id, x.atime, x.atime - y.atime as diff
from yourtable x, yourtable y
where x.id + 1 = y.id;

Joe

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