Substitute column in SELECT with static value?

Hi there,

I run an aggregation on national statistics to retrieve regional
values (for Africa, Europe, ...). Now, I want to have a global
aggregation as well. The easiest thing for my PHP/HTML procedure
would be to have the global row make appear within the regional
result. So it would be something like

name | y_2001 | y_2002 .....
--------------------------------------------------------
Africa | 2323 | 342323
Europe | ....
.....
Global | 849309 | .....

The global total can be derived by for example be letting out the
COALESCE and GROUP BY r.name parameters in the SQL below and using
UNION ALL to attach this then as second query. But then, there is one
column less - the one for the regional name.

SELECT * FROM crosstab( '
SELECT
COALESCE(r.name, ''''),
year_start AS year,
SUM(value) AS value
FROM
co2_total_cdiac AS d
RIGHT JOIN
countries_view AS c ON c.id = id_country
RIGHT JOIN
regions AS r ON r.id = c.reg_id
WHERE
year_start = 2001 OR year_start = 2002 OR year_start = 2003
GROUP BY
r.name,
year_start
ORDER BY
1,2;
', 3) AS ct(name varchar, y_2001 numeric, y_2002 numeric, y_2003
numeric)
ORDER BY
name ASC

Is there a way to substitute this with a "static" value, such as
"Global"? So, that the query still results in three columns?

Thanks for any advice!

Stef

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