On þri, 2007-06-05 at 19:33 +0300, veejar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have such field in my table:
>
> field1
> -------
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
>
>
> I want to get such result from select:
> '1,2,3,4,5' - join all values in field1 with ','
> // result must be varchar.
>
> Help to write SELECT-query for this task.
create an aggregate function and use that in your select.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-createaggregate.html
google reminded me of the mysql compatibility project,
whose implementation for group_concat() can be found here:
http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/mysqlcompat/mysqlcompat/aggregate.sql?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
gnari