Re: Adding 'crosstab' variants returning refcursor?

Hi

2014-09-01 13:08 GMT+02:00 Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> Hi all
>
> Before I have a go at hacking it together I wanted to check: Has anyone
> explored modifying crosstab to return a refcursor, so you can FETCH the
> results w/o having to specify an explicit result type/descriptor?
>

+1

>
> Consuming the input in another query is more of a pain, but it'd be
> infinitely nicer when you just want the results in a client.
>

I wrote proof concept
http://okbob.blogspot.cz/2008/08/using-cursors-for-generating-cross.html

Regards

Pavel

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