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FUNCTIONS / AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS

mode

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Computes the mode, the most frequent value of the aggregated argument (arbitrarily choosing the first one if there are multiple equally-frequent values).

Signatures & examples

mode () WITHIN GROUP ( ORDER BY anyelement ) → anyelement
Computes the mode, the most frequent value of the aggregated argument (arbitrarily choosing the first one if there are multiple equally-frequent values). The aggregated argument must be of a sortable type.
Version history 2
  1. PG 12 → 13changed
  2. PG 9.3 → 9.4added

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