# histogram_values — DuckDB 1.3.2

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- Reference: /products/haybarn/functions/releases/duckdb-1.3.2/histogram_values/
- JSON: /products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.3.2/functions/histogram_values.json
- Snapshot ID: duckdb-1.3.2
- Engine: duckdb v1.3.2
- Source ID: 0b83e5d2f6
- Binary SHA-256: 9a2ae2a4d5dbd07a5b0cb30c502d65014825d34924c681eb3faa7647e7cd2b6f
- Captured: 2026-09-05T18:37:33.818Z
- Source: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/tag/v1.3.2
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## Overloads

### overload-deb3a11cf1f5e083

Kind: table_macro. Parameter order: catalog-order.

```text
histogram_values(source: unknown, col_name: unknown, technique: unknown, bin_count: unknown) → TABLE
```

Link: /products/haybarn/functions/releases/duckdb-1.3.2/histogram_values/#overload-deb3a11cf1f5e083

| Argument | Catalog type | Calling mode |
| --- | --- | --- |
| source | unknown | not recorded |
| col_name | unknown | not recorded |
| technique | unknown | not recorded |
| bin_count | unknown | not recorded |

Declared return type: unknown. Variadic argument type: none declared.
Stability: unknown. Declared side effects: unknown.

Macro definition:

```sql
WITH bins AS (SELECT CASE  WHEN ((((NOT (can_cast_implicitly(min(col_name), CAST(NULL AS BIGINT)) OR can_cast_implicitly(min(col_name), CAST(NULL AS DOUBLE)) OR can_cast_implicitly(min(col_name), CAST(NULL AS TIMESTAMP)))) AND (technique = 'auto')) OR (technique = 'sample'))) THEN (approx_top_k(col_name, bin_count)) WHEN ((technique = 'equi-height')) THEN (quantile(col_name, main.list_apply(generate_series(1, bin_count), (lambda x: (x / CAST(bin_count AS DOUBLE)))))) WHEN ((technique = 'equi-width')) THEN (equi_width_bins(min(col_name), max(col_name), bin_count, CAST('f' AS BOOLEAN))) WHEN (((technique = 'equi-width-nice') OR (technique = 'auto'))) THEN (equi_width_bins(min(col_name), max(col_name), bin_count, CAST('t' AS BOOLEAN))) ELSE error(concat('Unrecognized technique ', technique)) END AS bins FROM query_table(CAST(source AS VARCHAR)))SELECT unnest(map_keys(histogram)) AS bin, unnest(map_values(histogram)) AS count FROM (SELECT CASE  WHEN ((((NOT (can_cast_implicitly(min(col_name), CAST(NULL AS BIGINT)) OR can_cast_implicitly(min(col_name), CAST(NULL AS DOUBLE)) OR can_cast_implicitly(min(col_name), CAST(NULL AS TIMESTAMP)))) AND (technique = 'auto')) OR (technique = 'sample'))) THEN (histogram_exact(col_name, bins)) ELSE histogram(col_name, bins) END AS histogram FROM query_table(CAST(source AS VARCHAR)) , bins)
```


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## Additional DuckDB documentation

- [Aggregate Functions](https://duckdb.org/docs/current/sql/functions/aggregates#histogram_valuessource-col_name-technique-bin_count)

## Observed availability

| Snapshot | Observed | Overloads | JSON |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| haybarn-1.5.5-rc3 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/haybarn-1.5.5-rc3/functions/histogram_values.json) |
| duckdb-1.5.5 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.5.5/functions/histogram_values.json) |
| duckdb-1.4.4 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.4.4/functions/histogram_values.json) |
| duckdb-1.3.2 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.3.2/functions/histogram_values.json) |

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