Re: combine multiple row values in to one row

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Lee Harr <missive(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: combine multiple row values in to one row
Date: 2009-07-07 15:43:04
Message-ID: 20090707154304.GJ32215@fetter.org
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:40:06AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:59:35AM +0430, Lee Harr wrote:
> >
> > Is there a generic way to do this? An aggregate maybe?
>
> The aggregate is called array_agg() and it's in 8.4. You can then
> wrap array_to_string() around it and get pretty formatting, as in:
>
> SELECT idn, array_to_string(array_agg(code),', ') AS codes FROM tbl;

Oops. That should read:

SELECT
idn,
array_to_string(array_agg(code),', ') AS codes
FROM tbl
GROUP BY idn; /* gotta group by :) */

Cheers,
David.
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