Re: SQL moving window averages/statistics

Just 3 points ...

1) don't use "date" as a column name because it's a data type.

2) to_char(current_date, 'MM')||to_char(current_date, 'DD')
is equivalent to
to_char(current_date, 'MMDD')

3) you should get the same result with
...
where icao='KSFO'
and (EXTRACT (MONTH from date) = 9)
and (EXTRACT (DAY from date) BETWEEN 23 AND 29))
group by
...

Then you lost me with your 3 day idea =8-}

It might be depressingly slow but depending how time critical the report
is, you could do something like

select distinct (date)
date,
(select max(dc1.tmax) from daily_climate as dc1 where dc1.date
between (dc0.date - interval '1 day') and (dc0.date + interval '1 day'))
as max_tmax,
(select min(dc1.tmax) from daily_climate as dc1 where dc1.date
between (dc0.date - interval '1 day') and (dc0.date + interval '1 day'))
as min_tmax,
.................
from daily_climate as dc0
............

That's just something that might get you a result.
I didn't try it out.

Kai Carter schrieb:
> I'm currently have an sql statement that selects a week of descriptive
> statistics for various historical weather variables, sorted by date.
>
> SELECT to_char(date, 'MM')||to_char(date, 'DD') as date, max(tmax) as
> max_tmax, min(tmax) as min_tmax, avg(tmax) as mean_tmax, stddev(tmax)
> as std_tmax, count(tmax) as count_tmax, sum(tmax) as sum_tmax,
> variance(tmax) as var_tmax FROM daily_climate where icao='KSFO' and
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) =9 and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 23) or
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) = 9 and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 24) or
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) = 9 and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 25) or
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) = 9 and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 26) or
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) =9 and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 27) or
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) = 9 and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 28) or
> (EXTRACT(MONTH from date) = and EXTRACT(DAY from date) = 29) group by
> date order by date;
>
> The problem is that I only have 36 years of data to work with, and I
> would prefer to have a sample of ~100 rather than 30. So the idea
> would be to have a sample statistics for each day made up of 3 days:
> the current day, the day previous and the day after.
>
> Is it possible to get this sort of a result with one select statement?
>
> Thanks in advance for your responses,
>
> Kai Carter
>