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lttb-sql

sample of PL/PGSQL to implement LTTB algorithm for down sampling

See: https://github.com/sveinn-steinarsson/flot-downsample

To test the function

CREATE TABLE sample_data (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    point_data POINT
);

\COPY sample_data FROM source.csv WITH CSV;

WITH selected_data AS (
    SELECT array_agg(point_data) AS data_array
    FROM sample_data
)

SELECT * FROM largest_triangle_three_buckets(
    (SELECT data_array FROM selected_data),
    500
);

Another example

-- query to downsample 3600 points of sine wave to 10 points
WITH selected_data AS (
    SELECT array_agg(POINT(x, sin(radians(x)))) AS data_array
        FROM generate_series(-180, 180, 0.1) AS x
)

SELECT * FROM largest_triangle_three_buckets(
    (SELECT data_array FROM selected_data),
    10
);