PostgreSQL DATE_PART function - sql

I need to find all applications whose time of sending all documents does not exceed 10 minutes. I have done the rest of code but I have problem with date_part function. The code below works fine but I have to find the other way. How can I do it differently ?
abs(
round(
(
date_part('hour',d.received_date)
-
date_part('hour',d.send_date)
) * 60
+
(
date_part('minute', d.received_date)
-
date_part('minute', d.send_date)
)
)
) as sendTime

It's unclear to me if you want to limit the result to rows where the difference is less then 10 minutes (as stated in the question) or you just want to display the result between two timestamps in minutes (as you stated in the comments).
The expression r.received_date - r.send_date returns an interval which can easily to be converted to minutes. So to display the difference, use:
extract(epoch from d.received_date - d.send_date) / 60 as minutes
to limit the result to only rows where the difference is less than 10 minutes use:
select ...
from ...
where d.received_date - d.send_date <= interval '10' minute

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trino sql calculate any time unit from given timestamp

I am exploring a legacy code and came upon this trino sql query that calculates and groups by any given period , i.e. 86400 for a day, 3600 for hour, etc, from a timestamp field.
SELECT
COUNT(*) count,
(floor(((to_unixtime(s.uploadedon) - 60*(-345)) / 86400)) * 86400)*1000 as sn_period_day
from as.prod_views.sessions as s
where ...
group by sn_period_day
So I can understand that (to_unixtime(s.uploadedon) - 60*(-345) this will add or subtract the hour offset from a given UTC timestamp field, s.uploadedon, where 345 is in minutes.
But the rest of (floor(((to_unixtime(s.uploadedon) - 60*(-345)) / 86400)) * 86400)*1000 I am confused.
Also 86400 is used for the day calculation. Similarly (floor(((to_unixtime(s.uploadedon) - 60*(-345)) / 3600)) * 3600)*1000 for hour calculation.
Can anyone help me understand this computation logic?

Oddities with postgres SQL [negative date interval and alias that doesn't work only in condition clause]

I'm coming to you guys with with two small oddities I can't seem to understand with postgres:
(1)
SELECT "LASTREQUESTED",
(DATE_TRUNC('seconds', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - "LASTREQUESTED")
- INTERVAL '8 hours') AS "TIME"
FROM "USER" AS u
JOIN "REQUESTLOG" AS r ON u."ID" = r."ID"
ORDER BY "TIME"
I'm calculating when users can make their next request [once every 8 hours], but if you look at entry 16 I get "1 day -06:20:47" instead of "18:00:00" ish, unlike every other line. [The table LASTREQUESTED is a simple timestamp, nothing different here from the other entries for line 16], why is that?
(2)
On the same request, if I try to add a condition on the "TIME" column, the compiler says it doesn't exist although using it to order by is ok. I don't get why.
SELECT (DATE_TRUNC('seconds', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - "LASTREQUESTED")
- INTERVAL '8 hours') AS "TIME"
FROM "USER" AS u
JOIN "REQUESTLOG" AS r ON u."ID" = r."ID"
WHERE "TIME" > 0
ORDER BY "TIME";
Question #1: negative hours but positive days?
According to the PostgreSQL documentation, this is a situation where PostgreSQL differs from the SQL standard:
According to the SQL standard all fields of an interval value must have the same sign…. PostgreSQL allows the fields to have different signs….
Internally interval values are stored as months, days, and seconds. This is done because the number of days in a month varies, and a day can have 23 or 25 hours if a daylight savings time adjustment is involved. The months and days fields are integers while the seconds field can store fractions. …
You can see a more extreme example of this with the following query:
=# select interval '1 day' - interval '300 hours';
?column?
------------------
1 day -300:00:00
(1 row)
So this is not a single interval in seconds expressed in a strange way; instead, it's an interval of 0 months, +1 day, and -1,080,000.0 seconds. If you are certain that there's no daylight savings time issues with the timestamps that you got these intervals from, you can use justify_hours to convert days into 24-hour periods and get an interval that makes more sense:
=# select justify_hours(interval '1 day' - interval '300 hours');
justify_hours
--------------------
-11 days -12:00:00
Question #2: SELECT columns can't be used in WHERE?
This is standard PostgreSQL behavior. See this duplicate question. Solutions presented there include:
Repeat the expression twice, once in the SELECT list, and again in the WHERE clause. (I've done this more times than I want to remember…)
SELECT (my - big * expression) AS x
FROM stuff
WHERE (my - big * expression) > 5
ORDER BY x
Create a subquery without that WHERE filter, and put the WHERE conditions in the outer query
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT (my - big * expression) AS x
FROM stuff) AS subquery
WHERE x > 5
ORDER BY x
Use a WITH statement to achieve something similar to the subquery trick.
I don't now exactly why it's calculating as-is (maybe because you subtract an Interval from another Interval) but when you change the calculation to Timestamp minus Timestamp it works as expected:
DATE_TRUNC('seconds', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - (LASTREQUESTED + INTERVAL '8 hours'))
See Fiddle
Regarding #2: Based on Standard SQL the columns in the Select-list are calculated after FROM/WHERE/GROUP BY/HAVING, but before ORDER, that's why you can't use an alias in WHERE. There are some good articles on that topic written by Itzik Ben-Gan (based on MS SQL Server, but similar for PostgreSQL).

calculating average with grouping based on time intervals

In a postgres table I have store the speed of an object with a 10 seconds interval. The values are not available for every 10 seconds during the day; so it could be that there is no line for today 16:39:40
How would the query look like to get an relation containing the average of the speed for 1 minute (or 30sec or n-sec) intervals for a given day, assuming the non-existing rows mean a speed of 0.
speed_table
id (int, pk)
ts (timestamp)
speed (numeric)
I've built this query but am getting stuck on some important parts:
SELECT
date_trunc('minute', ts) AS truncated,
avg(speed)
FROM speed_table AS t
WHERE ts >= '2014-06-21 00:00:00'
AND ts <= '2014-06-21 23:59:59'
AND condition2 = 'something'
GROUP BY date_trunc('minute', ts)
ORDER BY truncated
How can I alter the interval in something other then the result of the date_trunc function eg 5 minutes of 30 seconds?
How can I add the not available rows for the remaining of the day?
Simple and fast solution for this particular example:
SELECT date_trunc('minute', ts) AS minute
, sum(speed)/6 AS avg_speed
FROM speed_table AS t
WHERE ts >= '2014-06-21 0:0'
AND ts < '2014-06-20 0:0' -- exclude dangling corner case
AND condition2 = 'something'
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;
You need to factor in missing rows as "0 speed". Since a minute has 6 samples, just sum and divide by 6. Missing rows evaluate to 0 implicitly.
This returns no row for minutes with no rows at all.avg_speed for missing result rows is 0.
General query for arbitrary intervals
Works for all any interval listed in the manual for date_trunc():
SELECT date_trunc('minute', g.ts) AS ts_start
, avg(COALESCE(speed, 0)) AS avg_speed
FROM (SELECT generate_series('2014-06-21 0:0'::timestamp
, '2014-06-22 0:0'::timestamp
, '10 sec'::interval) AS ts) g
LEFT JOIN speed_table t USING (ts)
WHERE (t.condition2 = 'something' OR
t.condition2 IS NULL) -- depends on actual condition!
AND g.ts <> '2014-06-22 0:0'::timestamp -- exclude dangling corner case
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;
The problematic part is the additional unknown condition. You would need to define that. And decide whether missing rows supplied by generate_series should pass the test or not (which can be tricky!).
I let them pass in my example (and all other rows with a NULL values).
Compare:
PostgreSQL: running count of rows for a query 'by minute'
Arbitrary intervals:
Truncate timestamp to arbitrary intervals
For completely arbitrary intervals consider #Clodoaldo's math based on epoch values or use the often overlooked function width_bucket(). Example:
Aggregating (x,y) coordinate point clouds in PostgreSQL
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If you had issued some data it would be possible to test so this can contain errors. Point them including the error message so I can fix.
select
to_timestamp(
(extract(epoch from ts)::integer / (60 * 2)) * (60 * 2)
) as truncated,
avg(coalesce(speed, 0)) as avg_speed
from
generate_series (
'2014-06-21 00:00:00'::timestamp,
'2014-06-22'::timestamp - interval '1 second',
'10 seconds'
) ts (ts)
left join
speed_table t on ts.ts = t.ts and condition2 = 'something'
group by 1
order by 1
The example is grouped by 30 seconds. It is number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (epoch) divided by 120. When you want to group by 5 minutes divide it by 12 (60 / 5).
The generate_series in the example is generating timestamps at 1 second interval. It is left outer joined to the speed table so it fills the gaps. When the speed is null then coalesce returns 0.

Group by data intervals

I have a single table which stores bandwidth usage on the network over a period of time. One column will contain the date time (primary key) and another column will record the bandwidth. Data is recorded every minute. We will have other columns recording other data at that moment in time.
If the user requests the data on 15 minute intervals (within a 24 hour period given start and end date), is it possible with a single query to get the data I require or would I have to write a stored procedure/cursor to do this? Users may then request 5 minute intervals data etc.
I will most likely be using Postgres but are there other NOSQL options which would be better?
Any ideas?
WITH t AS (
SELECT ts, (random()*100)::int AS bandwidth
FROM generate_series('2012-09-01', '2012-09-04', '1 minute'::interval) ts
)
SELECT date_trunc('hour', ts) AS hour_stump
,(extract(minute FROM ts)::int / 15) AS min15_slot
,count(*) AS rows_in_timeslice -- optional
,sum(bandwidth) AS sum_bandwidth
FROM t
WHERE ts >= '2012-09-02 00:00:00+02'::timestamptz -- user's time range
AND ts < '2012-09-03 00:00:00+02'::timestamptz -- careful with borders
GROUP BY 1, 2
ORDER BY 1, 2;
The CTE t provides data like your table might hold: one timestamp ts per minute with a bandwidth number. (You don't need that part, you work with your table instead.)
Here is a very similar solution for a very similar question - with detailed explanation how this particular aggregation works:
date_trunc 5 minute interval in PostgreSQL
Here is a similar solution for a similar question concerning running sums - with detailed explanation and links for the various functions used:
PostgreSQL: running count of rows for a query 'by minute'
Additional question in comment
WITH -- same as above ...
SELECT DISTINCT ON (1,2)
date_trunc('hour', ts) AS hour_stump
,(extract(minute FROM ts)::int / 15) AS min15_slot
,bandwidth AS bandwith_sample_at_min15
FROM t
WHERE ts >= '2012-09-02 00:00:00+02'::timestamptz
AND ts < '2012-09-03 00:00:00+02'::timestamptz
ORDER BY 1, 2, ts DESC;
Retrieves one un-aggregated sample per 15 minute interval - from the last available row in the window. This will be the 15th minute if the row is not missing. Crucial parts are DISTINCT ON and ORDER BY.
More information about the used technique here:
Select first row in each GROUP BY group?
select
date_trunc('hour', d) +
(((extract(minute from d)::integer / 5 * 5)::text) || ' minute')::interval
as "from",
date_trunc('hour', d) +
((((extract(minute from d)::integer / 5 + 1) * 5)::text) || ' minute')::interval
- '1 second'::interval
as "to",
sum(random() * 1000) as bandwidth
from
generate_series('2012-01-01', '2012-01-31', '1 minute'::interval) s(d)
group by 1, 2
order by 1, 2
;
That for 5 minutes ranges. For 15 minutes divide by 15.

Postgres SQL select a range of records spaced out by a given interval

I am trying to determine if it is possible, using only sql for postgres, to select a range of time ordered records at a given interval.
Lets say I have 60 records, one record for each minute in a given hour. I want to select records at 5 minute intervals for that hour. The resulting rows should be 12 records each one 5 minutes apart.
This is currently accomplished by selecting the full range of records and then looping thru the results and pulling out the records at the given interval. I am trying to see if I can do this purly in sql as our db is large and we may be dealing with tens of thousands of records.
Any thoughts?
Yes you can. Its really easy once you get the hang of it. I think its one of jewels of SQL and its especially easy in PostgreSQL because of its excellent temporal support. Often, complex functions can turn into very simple queries in SQL that can scale and be indexed properly.
This uses generate_series to draw up sample time stamps that are spaced 1 minute apart. The outer query then extracts the minute and uses modulo to find the values that are 5 minutes apart.
select
ts,
extract(minute from ts)::integer as minute
from
( -- generate some time stamps - one minute apart
select
current_time + (n || ' minute')::interval as ts
from generate_series(1, 30) as n
) as timestamps
-- extract the minute check if its on a 5 minute interval
where extract(minute from ts)::integer % 5 = 0
-- only pick this hour
and extract(hour from ts) = extract(hour from current_time)
;
ts | minute
--------------------+--------
19:40:53.508836-07 | 40
19:45:53.508836-07 | 45
19:50:53.508836-07 | 50
19:55:53.508836-07 | 55
Notice how you could add an computed index on the where clause (where the value of the expression would make up the index) could lead to major speed improvements. Maybe not very selective in this case, but good to be aware of.
I wrote a reservation system once in PostgreSQL (which had lots of temporal logic where date intervals could not overlap) and never had to resort to iterative methods.
http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Design-Patterns-Programming-Focus/dp/0977671542 is an excellent book that goes has lots of interval examples. Hard to find in book stores now but well worth it.
Extract the minutes, convert to int4, and see, if the remainder from dividing by 5 is 0:
select *
from TABLE
where int4 (date_part ('minute', COLUMN)) % 5 = 0;
If the intervals are not time based, and you just want every 5th row; or
If the times are regular and you always have one record per minute
The below gives you one record per every 5
select *
from
(
select *, row_number() over (order by timecolumn) as rown
from tbl
) X
where mod(rown, 5) = 1
If your time records are not regular, then you need to generate a time series (given in another answer) and left join that into your table, group by the time column (from the series) and pick the MAX time from your table that is less than the time column.
Pseudo
select thetimeinterval, max(timecolumn)
from ( < the time series subquery > ) X
left join tbl on tbl.timecolumn <= thetimeinterval
group by thetimeinterval
And further join it back to the table for the full record (assuming unique times)
select t.* from
tbl inner join
(
select thetimeinterval, max(timecolumn) timecolumn
from ( < the time series subquery > ) X
left join tbl on tbl.timecolumn <= thetimeinterval
group by thetimeinterval
) y on tbl.timecolumn = y.timecolumn
How about this:
select min(ts), extract(minute from ts)::integer / 5
as bucket group by bucket order by bucket;
This has the advantage of doing the right thing if you have two readings for the same minute, or your readings skip a minute. Instead of using min even better would be to use one of the the first() aggregate functions-- code for which you can find here:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First_%28aggregate%29
This assumes that your five minute intervals are "on the fives", so to speak. That is, that you want 07:00, 07:05, 07:10, not 07:02, 07:07, 07:12. It also assumes you don't have two rows within the same minute, which might not be a safe assumption.
select your_timestamp
from your_table
where cast(extract(minute from your_timestamp) as integer) in (0,5);
If you might have two rows with timestamps within the same minute, like
2011-01-01 07:00:02
2011-01-01 07:00:59
then this version is safer.
select min(your_timestamp)
from your_table
group by (cast(extract(minute from your_timestamp) as integer) / 5)
Wrap either of those in a view, and you can join it to your base table.