Re: Returning a Cross Tab record set from a function

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Marc Wrubleski [mailto:mlwruble(at)math(dot)ucalgary(dot)ca]
|Sent: Mittwoch, 01. Juni 2005 16:15
|To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
|Subject: [SQL] Returning a Cross Tab record set from a function
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|It seems I can do this from any higher level language, but it drives me
|crazy that I can't perform this operation as a function inside of
|Postgres...

Yes, semms very like this can't be done in just sql but needs a higher level
lng.
Actually Postgres provides such higher languages. Try including PL/Python
PL/perl or PL/tk. Fom there you are able to query all the metadata of the
wanted tables so that a adequate SQL-string can be generated.

In case of sourcecode, you find theses languages in the contrib dir
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|Thanks for any thoughts you might have...
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|Marc Wrubleski <mlwruble_at_math.ucalgary.ca>
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