| From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | "Tille, Andreas" <TilleA(at)rki(dot)de> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL SQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Turning column into row |
| Date: | 2002-05-22 09:56:47 |
| Message-ID: | 1022061408.1400.1042.camel@linda |
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On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 08:35, Tille, Andreas wrote:
>
> So I have to turn the different properties according to one item into
> one field insead of one column.
>
> How to do this sanely?
Use Perl?
According to Joe Celko's book, SQL For Smarties, Sybase provides a
LIST() aggregate function that does this. But I don't know of anything
in PostgreSQL.
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