Re: Is psqlodbc what I'm looking for

Thanks for the information. I was not aware of tablefunc, I will look
into it before building psqlodbc. If it will do what we need then it
can save me a lot of time.

Dianne

On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:44 AM, george young wrote:

> Just a thought. Have you looked at the crosstab functions in the
> contrib/tablefunc source directory? I understand that some people use
> this for creating pivot tables. If it can do what you need, perhaps
> you can completely avoid exporting into excel.
>
> -- George Young
>
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:44:13 -0800
> Dianne Yumul <dianne(at)wellsgaming(dot)com> threw this fish to the penguins:
>
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> We have Postgresql 8.0.6 on a Linux (Fedora Core 4) server. We need
>> to create pivot tables (for auditing purposes) on the data we have
>> stored on the database on this server. For a while now I've been
>> running queries, dumping results on text files and importing them to
>> Excel. But sometimes the data does not fit on one sheet.
>>
>> Excel has a way of querying the database but it needs an odbc driver,
>> is psqlodbc this driver? And does it compile and work on Mac OS X
>> (10.4.5 and 10.3.9)?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Dianne
>>
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