counter_agg()
An aggregate that produces a CounterSummary from timestamps and associated values.
For more information about counter aggregation functions, see the hyperfunctions documentation.
Required arguments
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
ts | TIMESTAMPTZ | The time at each point |
value | DOUBLE PRECISION | The value at each point to use for the counter aggregate |
The value
argument is currently only accepted as a DOUBLE PRECISION number, because it is the most common type for counters, even though other numeric types, such as BIGINT, might sometimes be more intuitive. If you store a value as a different numeric type you can cast to DOUBLE PRECISION on input to the function.
note
If there are NULL
values in your data, the aggregate ignores them and aggregates only non-NULL
values. If you only have NULL
values, the aggregate returns NULL
.
Optional arguments
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
bounds | TSTZRANGE | A range of timestamptz |
The bounds
argument represents the largest and smallest possible times that could be input to this aggregate. Calling with NULL, or leaving out the argument, results in an unbounded CounterSummary
. Bounds are required for extrapolation, but not for other accessor functions.
Returns
Column | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
counter_agg | CounterSummary | A CounterSummary object that can be passed to accessor functions or other objects in the counter aggregate API |
Sample usage
This example produces a CounterSummary from timestamps and associated values, then computes the irate_right accessor:
WITH t as (
SELECT
time_bucket('1 day'::interval, ts) as dt,
counter_agg(ts, val) AS cs -- get a CounterSummary
FROM foo
WHERE id = 'bar'
GROUP BY time_bucket('1 day'::interval, ts)
)
SELECT
dt,
irate_right(cs) -- extract instantaneous rate from the CounterSummary
FROM t;