Aggregate from CASE WHEN...

From: Ioannis Anagnostopoulos <ioannis(at)anatec(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Aggregate from CASE WHEN...
Date: 2012-07-08 01:46:48
Message-ID: 4FF8E688.7060301@anatec.com
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Hello,

I am trying to aggregate some data but conditionally as follows:

SELECT
feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(message_copies.msg_id) as
messages_array,
uniq(feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(obj_mmsi)) as mmsi_array,
CASE WHEN msg_type BETWEEN 1 and 3 THEN
feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(message_copies.msg_id) END as msgA,
CASE WHEN msg_type = 18 THEN
feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(message_copies.msg_id) END as msgB_std,
CASE WHEN msg_type = 19 THEN
feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(message_copies.msg_id) END as msgB_ext,
CASE WHEN obj_type = 'SHIP_TYPE_A' THEN
uniq(feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(obj_mmsi)) END as mmsi_type_a_array,
CASE WHEN obj_type = 'SHIP_TYPE_B' THEN
uniq(feed_all_y2012m01.array_accum(obj_mmsi)) END as mmsi_type_b_array,
.......

The logic breaks where PGSQL forces me(?) to group by msg_type and
obj_type while I was hoping that msg_type and obj_type could just be
considered as the variables that the conditions would be checked against.
Neither I want to use some form of aggregation on these two fields. Is
there any way that I can achieve something like this?

Thank you
Yiannis

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