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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Advanced aggregation

There are several aggregating functions that are executed in a special way.

The first group of such aggregating functions is called ordered-set aggregates. They take into account not just the values of the argument expressions, but also their order. They are related to statistics and calculate percentile values.

A percentile is the value of a group of numbers when the given percentage of other values is less than the percentile. For example, if a value is at the 95th percentile, this means that it's greater than 95 percent of the other values. In PostgreSQL, you can calculate a continuous or discrete percentile using the percentile_cont and percentile_disc functions, respectively.

A discrete percentile is one of the ...

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