How to use INTO and GROUP BY clause together - sql

Question

SELECT cast ( SUBSTRING ( CAST ("ProcessingDate" AS text), 5, 2 ) as integer),
COUNT(*) INTO resultValue1,resultValue2
FROM "DemoLogs"."Project"
WHERE "Addr" = 'Y' AND "ProcessingDate" >= 20160110
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;
In my database, the ProcessingDate is stored as YYYYMMDD. So, I am extracting its month from it.
This query is working fine if we remove the INTO clause but, I want to store the result to use it further.
So what should be the datatype of the variable resultValue1 and resultValue2 how to store the data(because data will be multiple).
As I am new to PostgreSQL I don't know how to do this can anybody help me out.

Answer 1

Here resultValue1 & resultValue2 will be tables not variables. you can group by using the column names.
Give some column alias names for both columns and group by using them.
You probably want this.
SELECT cast ( SUBSTRING ( cast ("ProcessingDate" as text),5 , 2 ) as
integer) AS resultValue1, COUNT(*) AS resultValue2
INTO <NewTable> --NewTable will be created with those two columns
FROM "DemoLogs"."Project"
-- conditions
Group By 1
-- other contitions/clauses
;
Kindly refer this INTO Documentation.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Try this:
SELECT cast ( SUBSTRING ( cast ("ProcessingDate" as text),5 , 2 ) as integer)resultValue1,
COUNT(*)resultValue2
INTO <Table Name>
FROM "DemoLogs"."Project"
WHERE "Addr" = 'Y'
AND "ProcessingDate" >= '20160110'
Group By 1
Order By 1;

Answer 3

Store the above query in the variable and remove that INTO clause from it.
So, query will be now :
query = SELECT cast ( SUBSTRING ( CAST ("ProcessingDate" AS text), 5, 2 ) as
integer),
COUNT(*)
FROM "DemoLogs"."Project"
WHERE "Addr" = 'Y' AND "ProcessingDate" >= 20160110
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;
Now declare result_data of type record and use in the following manner:
We are looping over result_data because it gives number of rows as output
and I have declared resultset of type text to store the result (as I needed further)
FOR result_data IN EXECUTE query
LOOP
RAISE NOTICE 'result : %',to_json(result_data);
resultset = resultset || to_json(result_data);
END LOOP;