average/stddev on all values returned by a select distinct - Mailing list pgsql-general

I have this query which returns the length of the longest consensus for
each id.

lumbribase=# select distinct on (id) length(consensus) from cluster
order by id,length(consensus) desc;
 length
--------
    647
    680
    273
    384
   1285
<snip>

What I want is the average and stddev of the set of lengths returned by
this query.  Something like...

select average(select distinct on (id) length(consensus) from cluster
order by id,length(consensus) desc);

Could someone tell me how it's done?

Thanks

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