From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: vince@weaktight.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: query; check for zero and floats
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:34:02 -0800
Message-ID: <442E1EDA.6040402@joeconway.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060401010317.tbza82opw0c0ccg0@webmail.weaktight.com>
References: <20060401010317.tbza82opw0c0ccg0@webmail.weaktight.com>
vince@weaktight.com wrote:
> I'm trying to do a simple query and I'm not sure how to get it to work:
>
> SELECT SUM(x0 + y0 + z0) / SUM(x2 + y2) AS A1, SUM(x1 + y1 + z1) / SUM(x3 + y3)
> AS A2
> FROM test
>
> Problems:
>
> 1. All variables are integers. When it does the division, it returns an
> integer, but I want a float. (I've tried numerous things to no avail)
>
> 2. If SUM(x2 + y2) == 0; there is a divide by zero error. How do I check and
> pass on zeroes?
A bit ugly, but seems to work:
create table t1 (g int, x0 int, y0 int, z0 int, x2 int, y2 int);
insert into t1 values (0, 1,1,1,1,-1);
insert into t1 values (0, 1,1,1,-1,1);
insert into t1 values (1,1,1,1,1,1);
insert into t1 values (1,2,3,4,5,6);
SELECT g, case
when SUM(x2::float8 + y2::float8) = 0 then
0
else
SUM(x0::float8 + y0::float8 + z0::float8) /
SUM(x2::float8 + y2::float8)
end
AS A1 from t1 group by g;
g | a1
---+-------------------
1 | 0.923076923076923
0 | 0
(2 rows)
HTH,
Joe
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