Sandor, this has worked, thank you -

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Sándor Daku <daku.san...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Of course you need the played field you relied on it in the order by
> clause. You can use the result of a select in a from clause of another
> select.
>
> SELECT SUM(skips) from (SELECT CASE WHEN action='skip' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
> as skips, played
>          FROM words_moves
>          WHERE gid = 3
>          ORDER BY played DESC
>          LIMIT 6) as skipscount;
>
>
words=> SELECT SUM(skips) from (SELECT CASE WHEN action='skip' THEN 1 ELSE
0 END as skips, played
words(>          FROM words_moves
words(>          WHERE gid = 3
words(>          ORDER BY played DESC
words(>          LIMIT 6) as skipscount;
 sum
-----
   6
(1 row)

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