Re: crosstab function - pivot - use column value as column description

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Am 12.01.2010 22:00, schrieb Merlin Moncure:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Schuchardt
> <d(dot)schuchardt(at)prodat-sql(dot)de> wrote:
>
>> Hy,
>>
>> i'm looking for a solution to get this table dynamicaly in that resultset:
>>
>> SELECT r_dbrid, r_kategorie AS column_name, r_descr AS value FROM
>> recnokeyword WHERE r_dbrid=X
>> r_dbrid | r_kategorie | r_descr
>> ----------+-------------+------------
>> 14725737 |material | Alu Sorte1
>> 14725737 |farbe | Blau
>> 14725737 |gewicht | 100 kg
>>
>> ---->
>>
>> material | farbe | gewicht
>> ----------+-------------+------------
>> alu sorte 1|blau | 100kg
>>
>> ----> the number of columns depends on data.
>>
>> is there is a simple solution for that?
>>
> have you ruled out the appropriate contrib module?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/tablefunc.html
>
> merlin
>
>

yes, but that function requires a return type -> so i has to know how
many columns. also the column description ist defined by data but by
return type.

(

SELECT * FROM crosstab('...', '...')
AS ct(row_name text, extra text, cat1 text, cat2 text, cat3 text, cat4 text);

This will produce a result something like:

<== value columns ==>
row_name extra cat1 cat2 cat3 cat4

)

Daniel
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