Re: crosstab doesn't work

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:09:06PM +0100, Vittorio wrote:
> Dear all,

<snip>

> crosstab doesn't seem to work
> anymore putting the above select into crosstab
>
> switch=# select * from
> crosstab('select rowid,attribute, sum(value) as val from ct1 group by
> rowid, attribute order by 1,2;', 2) as c(rowid text, att1 integer, att2
> integer);
> ERROR: query-specified return row and actual function return
> row do not match

It's just a guess, but I think the result of sum() might be a bigint,
in which case you should say that att1 and att2 are bigints, or
alternativly use cast(sum(value) as integer).

Hope this helps,
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