not quite a cross tab query...

From: Richard Greenwood <richard(dot)greenwood(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: not quite a cross tab query...
Date: 2009-03-05 19:17:22
Message-ID: ae9185aa0903051117n494f12fbo8c7306b9638d299b@mail.gmail.com
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Hello pgsql listers,

I've got a problem that is similar to, but I don't think identical to,
a cross tab query. My data looks like:
ID | CAT
1 | A
1 | B
2 | A
2 | C
So for each ID there may be many CAT (categories).
The client wants it to look like:
ID | CATS
1 | A,B
2 | A,C
Where each ID is unique in the results, and the CAT values are
concatenated with a comma separator.

There are about 100 unique CAT values. They only way I can see to do
it is programatically with a for loop. But before I do that I wanted
to bounce it off the fine minds that inhabit this list.

Thanks,
Rich

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Richard Greenwood
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www.greenwoodmap.com

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