How to group rows into two groups in sql?

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Published on 2012-10-29T16:56:00Z Indexed on 2012/10/29 17:00 UTC
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Lets say I have such a table:

id|time|operation
1  2      read
2  5      write
3  3      read
4  7      read
5  2      save
6  1      open

and now I would like to do two things:

  1. Divide all these records into two groups: 1) all rows where operation equals to "read" 2) all other rows.
  2. Sum the time in each group.

So that my query would result only into two rows.

What I got so far is:

select 
 sum(time) as total_time,
 operation
group by
 operation
;

Although that gives me many groups, depending on the number of distinct operations.

How I could group them only into two categories?

Cheers!

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