Re: [patch] Proposal for \crosstabview in psql

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Proposal for \crosstabview in psql
Date: 2016-04-08 19:41:14
Message-ID: 20160408194114.GA689860@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:

> This seems like it might be converging on some sort of consensus, but
> I'm wondering if we shouldn't push it to 9.7, instead of rushing
> decisions that we will later have trouble changing on
> backward-compatibility grounds.

My intention is to commit this afternoon in the next couple of hours,
and only the most basic case is going to be supported, and the rest of
the cases (concatenation of several fields and several rows, etc) are
just going to throw errors; that way, it will be easy to add more
features later as they are agreed upon.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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