Re: "Flattening" query result into columns

From: "Leif B(dot) Kristensen" <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "Flattening" query result into columns
Date: 2005-03-21 22:37:08
Message-ID: 200503212337.08682.leif@solumslekt.org
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On Monday 21 March 2005 22:57, Thomas Borg Salling wrote:
> I am looking for a way to "flatten" a query result, so that rows are
> "transposed" into columns, just as asked here for oracle:
>
> Is there any way to do this with pgsql  ?

Just to help out the guys, here's a working link:

<http://groups.google.dk/groups?hl=da&selm=aad10be0.0401292322.7b6c320b%40posting.google.com>

What you're asking for is called a pivot table, and at least in Oracle
they use a function called decode(). I need exactly the same thing, but
I too am unable to find the optimal way to do it in PostgreSQL.
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Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/

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