Re: [GENERAL] Illegal use of aggregates or non-group column in target list

Try :

select target, avg(reaction_time) from data_table group by target;

Haven't tested it, but it should be close to what you're looking for.

At 02:14 PM 3/3/00, G. Anthony Reina wrote:
>I'd like to return an average for one item in my database grouped by
>another item. For example,
>
>The table looks like this:
>=================
>CREATE TABLE data_table (
> subject text,
> arm char,
> target int4, -- end of primary
>key
> reaction_time float4
>);
>CREATE UNIQUE INDEX pkdata_table ON data_table (subject, arm, target);
>
>
>The command I'd like to use is something like:
>================================
>select target, avg(reaction_time) from data_table;
>
>and I'd like this command to return:
>
>target | avg
>=============
> 1 | 301.3
> 2 | 311.45
> 3 | 299.1
> 4 | 300.8
>
>
>However, this statement just gives me the error: Illegal use of
>aggregates or non-group column in target list.
>
>So apparently I can only return either one or the other but not the two
>together. Is there a way to get the output I want in SQL?
>
>Thanks.
>-Tony
>
>
>
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