Re: origins/destinations

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Carson Farmer <carson(dot)farmer(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Carson Farmer <Carson(dot)Farmer(at)nuim(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: origins/destinations
Date: 2009-05-19 17:25:13
Message-ID: 4A12EB79.2070603@archonet.com
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Carson Farmer wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have (what I thought was) a relatively simple problem, but my
> knowledge of sql is just not good enough to get this done:
>
> I have a table which is basically a number of individuals with both
> their origin and destination as columns (see Table 1). In this case,
> origins and destinations are the census area in which they and work.
> What I would like to do is generate an nxn matrix (preferably output to
> csv but I'll take what I can get), where origins are on the y axis, and
> destinations on the x axis (see Table 3).

Google a little for crosstab queries with the tablefunc add-ons in the
contrib/ directory.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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