Re: Combining output of several fields in SQL query

From: "Aaron Bono" <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com>
To: "Allan Kamau" <kamauallan(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Combining output of several fields in SQL query
Date: 2006-09-12 20:08:35
Message-ID: bf05e51c0609121308n49967bddn21d7379bf4edde5f@mail.gmail.com
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On 9/12/06, Allan Kamau <kamauallan(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
> create table tableA(
> s_l_p_p_v_i text not null,
> field1 text not null,
> field2 text not null,
> primary key(field1,field2));
>
> s_l_p_p_v_i field1 field1
> abc 2 1
> xyz 2 4
> klm 2 3

Your initial query:

select field2||'_'||field1 from tableA;

works perfectly for me:

?column?
4_2
1_2
3_2

Are you sure you are not getting the correct results?

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Aaron Bono
Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
http://www.aranya.com
http://codeelixir.com
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