Re: Average of Array?

From: Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta(at)wp(dot)pl>
To: Lee Hachadoorian <lee(dot)hachadoorian(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Average of Array?
Date: 2010-06-25 19:33:55
Message-ID: 4C2504A3.4090502@wp.pl
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Lee Hachadoorian pisze:
> Is there a function that returns the average of the elements of an
> array? I'm thinking of something that would work like the avg()
> aggregate function where it returns the average of all non-NULL
> values. Can't find anything like it in the docs, and I'd like to make
> sure I'm not missing something.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
Use unnest() ->
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-array.html

# select avg(unnest) from (select unnest(ARRAY[1,2,null,3])) a;
avg
--------------------
2.0000000000000000
(1 row)

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