transposed query?

From: javier garcia - CEBAS <rn001(at)cebas(dot)csic(dot)es>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: transposed query?
Date: 2003-11-03 18:23:27
Message-ID: 200311031803.hA3I3cR24681@natura.cebas.csic.es
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Hi;
I've got problems with a query. I'm not sure if it is possible to do this
with Postgres, although I think it should be.

I had resolved these kind of queryes in MSAccess, where they are called
"cross references querys" but I can't find my way in Postgres.

My table 'muestras_rambla' is like:
date | id_punto | muestra | flow | n_nitrato ...
--------------------------+----------+---------+---------+-----------
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 1 | 1 | 699.462 | 18.44
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 1 | 2 | 699.462 | 13.79
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 2 | 1 | 341.05 | 11.15
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 2 | 2 | 341.05 | 17.3
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 3 | 1 | 514.05 | 22.17
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 3 | 2 | 514.05 | 16.62
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 4 | 1 | 466.884 | 18.99
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 4 | 2 | 466.884 | 19.02
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 6 | 1 | 30.012 | 5.91
06/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 6 | 2 | 30.012 | 4.15
19/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 1 | 1 | 911.43 | 17.66
19/02/2003 00:00:00 CET | 1 | 2 | 911.43 | 9.23
...

where I 'id_punto' can take the values from 1 to 6, and muestra is 1 or 2.
Commonly, for each 'date' and 'id_punto' we have two samples (muestra), and
the 'flow' is also commonly the same for the two samples.

The case is that for every 'date' I want to have the 'time series' of flows
in the way:
date 1 2 3 4 6
03/10/2002 606.92 323.08 440.69 393.61 5.49
17/10/2002 348.19 400.32 319.33 211.26 2.53
29/10/2002 411.57 409.66 310.37 362.20 9.36
14/11/2002 446.96 373.72 302.79 348.69 5.18
26/11/2002 381.20 386.85 307.77 240.75 6.41
12/12/2002 416.84 307.03 317.94 249.36 5.64
26/12/2002 743.04 380.30 539.94 521.60 3.69
09/01/2003 403.07 301.16 370.30 379.41 3.69
...

where the names of the rows are the values in 'id_punto' and the values of
the data are the average (for every 'id_punto' and 'date') between the two
samples (muestra).

In MSaccess this is solve with:
TRANSFORM avg(muestras_rambla.flow) AS avg_flow
SELECT muestras_rambla.date
FROM muestras_rambla
GROUP BY muestras_rambla.date
PIVOT muestras_rambla.id_punto;

All I can do in postgres is :
--------
SELECT muestras_rambla.fecha, id_punto, avg(caudal) AS avg_caudal
FROM muestras_rambla
GROUP BY fecha, id_punto
--------
to get:
fecha | id_punto | avg_caudal
--------------------------+----------+------------------
03/10/2002 00:00:00 CEST | 1 | 606.924
03/10/2002 00:00:00 CEST | 2 | 323.079
03/10/2002 00:00:00 CEST | 3 | 440.690
...
But, how could manage this to get the 'time series' table?

Thanks for your help and best wishes

Javier

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