Re: Outer joins?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: emils(dot)klotins(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Outer joins?
Date: 2006-04-28 15:31:10
Message-ID: 1267.1146238270@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Emils <gnudiff(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The table structure is:

> object_values
> ==========
> obj_id
> att_id
> value

> namely, each object can have arbitrary number of attributes each of
> them with a value.

> What I want, is a simple table of objects with some of their specific
> attributes, the result should be in form:

> obj_id1 o1att1_value o1att2_value o1att3_value
> obj_id2 o2att1_value o2att2_value o2att3_value
> ...

This isn't an outer-join problem, it's a crosstab problem. Try the
crosstab functions in contrib/tablefunc.

regards, tom lane

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