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PostgreSQL AVG Function


AVG

The AVG() function returns the average value of a numeric column.

Example

Return the average price of all the products in the products table:

SELECT AVG(price)
FROM products;
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Note: NULL values are ignored.

With 2 Decimals

The above example returned the average price of all products, the result was 28.8663636363636364.

We can use the ::NUMERIC operator to round the average price to a number with 2 decimals:

Example

Return the average price of all the products, rounded to 2 decimals:

SELECT AVG(price)::NUMERIC(10,2)
FROM products;
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PostgreSQL Exercises

Test Yourself With Exercises

Exercise:

Use the correct function to return the average number of all values of the field price in the products table.

SELECT 
FROM products;
        

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