Re: Tricky math in PSQL

On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 14:37 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Please include such information in the post, either directly or as
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Hey Kevin,

Noted. In general you are right. Because these queries are a bit long
and sometimes wrap in ugly ways in folks' MUAs making them harder to
read, you'll have to forgive me for this one.

> People can best help you if you provide a self-contained test case
> -- on that actually runs from an empty database.  You will get more
> responses, and are more likely to get to a good solution, if you
> simplify the example as far as possible while still showing the
> basic problem -- without ellipses or other non-executable visual
> cues.

Ok, it took me a while to figure out how to populate the tables with
sample random data, but I believe I have a complete self-contained
example that executes.

    http://pastebin.com/zwWmYMd0

The two tables statistics and statistics_child are populated with a
large number of rows.

Thank you for your help, Kevin.

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