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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Brent,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Of course I will be happy to
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">  This is how it looks now;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The query has been running now for several hours. I am therefore becoming less hopeful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">There are 19584 256x256 tiles in each of the tables. Each table only has three columns which were created when I imported the tifs
 – they are rid, rast and filename.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am unfamiliar with building indexes so this could be slow because they lack the appropriate indexing. The number of cells with values
 exceeding zero will be several million in each of the 5Million cell tifs and all data are stored as doubles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m not sure at what point I should realise it is not going to work!  The simpler add query is also running which makes me suspect
 this may not be working.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Sadly I may have to resort to doing this manually in QGIS for the 135 untiled tiffs in each table
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’ll keep you posted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Brent Wood [<a href="mailto:pcreso@yahoo.com">mailto:pcreso@yahoo.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 24 November 2015 18:41<br>
<b>To:</b> Darrel Maddy <<a href="mailto:darrel.maddy@newcastle.ac.uk">darrel.maddy@newcastle.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Help with SQL query?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">This has been a useful thread for others than yourself!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Can you post the entire final query once it is working? Otherwise we need to read through all the emails to build it up as you have done with advice from
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Darrel Maddy <<a href="mailto:darrel.maddy@newcastle.ac.uk">darrel.maddy@newcastle.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> PostGIS Users Discussion <<a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 25, 2015 2:00 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Help with SQL query?</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Very many thanks. The query is now running – so it is no longer giving an error. I will not know for a few hours whether it is calculating the necessary
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Birgit Laggner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 November 2015 12:19<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-users] Help with SQL query?</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Darrel,<br>
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my PostGIS version is too old for testing, but if I read the documentation right, then your expression has to be SQL. And IF THEN ELSE etc. is not SQL as far as I know - SQL has CASE WHEN.<br>
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So, I would assume, you would need to write your expression like this:<br>
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'CASE WHEN [rast2] > 0.0 THEN [rast1] ELSE NULL END'<br>
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I am curious if this helps with your error...<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Birgit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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