Re: Concat field result in select query

From: Lennin Caro <lennin(dot)caro(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, Nacef LABIDI <nacef(dot)l(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Concat field result in select query
Date: 2008-08-22 16:16:25
Message-ID: 613677.80516.qm@web59503.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
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> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to concatenate the
> results of a field in a
> select to return it as a single string.
>
> Example :
>
> my_field
> --------------
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> select concat_something(my_field) from my_table group by
> something;
> the result expected would be someting like that : 1/2/3
> (with a separator it
> would be really nice)
>
> I hope that I am not asking for too much ;)
>
> Thanks to all

you can use aggregate function, check for previous threads for this solution

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-createaggregate.html

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