Aggregate Functions Examples in Postgres for Beginners

Like most other relational database products, PostgreSQL supports aggregate functions.

An aggregate function computes a single result from multiple input rows. For example, there are aggregates to compute the count, sum, avg (average), max (maximum) and min (minimum) over a set of rows.

MAX

For example if you want to find out the product with highest unit price then we can query like this:

I am using the database available on my Github public repo

SELECT MAX(unit_price) FROM products;

//Output

max
263.5

MIN

if you want to find out the product with lowest unit price then we can query like this:

SELECT MIN(unit_price) FROM products;

//Output

min
2.5

COUNT

If you want to know about the number of products in inventory that you have, we can query like this:

SELECT COUNT(product_id) FROM products;

//Output
count
77

SUM

If you want to know about the total cost of inventory you have, we can query like this:

SELECT SUM(unit_price) FROM products;

//Output
sum
2220.2102

AVG

If you want to know about the average cost of inventory you have, we can query like this:

SELECT AVG(unit_price) FROM products;


//Output
avg
28.83389609200614

We can always round up those numbers using ROUND function.

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