Re: Alias name from subquery

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Felix Homann" <fexpop(at)onlinehome(dot)de>
Cc: "Sam Mason" <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Alias name from subquery
Date: 2008-09-30 17:53:59
Message-ID: dcc563d10809301053j2105e688o7fc5aef8e40a6d1e@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Felix Homann <fexpop(at)onlinehome(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> In other words, I would like to have a named column for every Name in the
> player table. I _can_ create such a view manually if I know each player.name
> beforehand, but I don't know how to automate it for any given number of
> players. (Think of something like a sparse interaction matrix
> representation.)

Ahhh, you might do better with crosstab functions then. look up the
tablefunc contrib module.

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