generic crosstab

From: Toni Casueps <casueps(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: generic crosstab
Date: 2007-11-06 12:46:06
Message-ID: BLU109-W4705AF36D8BB4966D60BBFAD890@phx.gbl
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I'm using the PostgreSQL crosstab functions to do something like this:

From this table ...

a x 10
b x 13
a y 11
b y 17

... I get:

x y
a 10 11
b 13 17

To get the second table I have to specify the field list when I call the crosstab function (in this example it would be AS t(x integer, y integer))
My problem arises when that field list changes, for example when someone inserts a record in the first table with a new value, for example "z". In that case I have to change my queries to AS t(x integer, y integer, z integer)

Do you know how to declare a "generic" field list, or some other library similar to crosstab?

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