From: Kevin Crain <kevin.crain1@gmail.com>
To: lists-pgsql@useunix.net
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: selecting records X minutes apart
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:01:53 -0700
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=9aNjR3vTBAPgEyuF0kFU24PjEng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110603195253.GE1324@slacker.ja10629.home>
References: <20110603195253.GE1324@slacker.ja10629.home>
Will you be using a full timestamp with that or are you only concerned
about hours and minutes? If you want a full timestamp do you care
about the seconds? For example, do you want to be able to do this for
'2011-06-01 23:59:04' and '2011-06-02 00:04:04'?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, <lists-pgsql@useunix.net> wrote:
> I have a table that, at a minimum, has ID and timestamp columns. Records
> are inserted into with random IDs and timestamps. Duplicate IDs are allowed.
>
> I want to select records grouped by ID, ordered by timestamp that are X minutes
> apart. In this case X is 5.
>
> Note, the intervals are not X minute wall clock intervals, they are X minute
> intervals from the last accepted record, per-id.
>
> For instance here is some sample input data:
>
> ID TS (HH:MM)
> -------------------
> 0 20:00
> 1 20:03
> 1 20:04
> 0 20:05
> 1 20:05
> 0 20:08
> 1 20:09
> 0 20:10
>
> I'd want the select to return:
>
> ID TS (HH:MM)
> -------------------
> 0 20:00
> 0 20:05
> 0 20:10
> 1 20:03
> 1 20:09
>
>
> Does my question make sense?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Wayne
>
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