Re: [patch] Proposal for \rotate in psql

3. When data are multiattribute - then merging together with space
> separator is not practical
>
> * important information is lost
> * same transformation can be done as expression, so this feature is
> useless
>
> Is possible to use one cell per attribute (don't do merge)?
>
> DATA QUERY: SELECT dim1, dim2, sum(x), avg(x) FROM .. GROUP BY dim1, dim2
>
> and result header of rotate can be
>
> DIM1 | dim2_val1/sum | dim2_val1/avg | dim2_val2/sum | dim2_val2/avg |
> ...
>

Last point can wait - we don't need to show pivot table with all details
perfectly in first step.

The main issue of this patch is name - "rotate" is really pretty strange
for me. Please, change it :) - crosstab is much better

Regards

Pavel