Re: Ways to deal with large amount of columns;

From: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ways to deal with large amount of columns;
Date: 2018-08-30 13:27:51
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Am 30.08.2018 um 15:15 schrieb Robert Zenz:
> As David said, you'd be better off having a table that looks like this (in terms
> of columns):
>
> * MONTH
> * AGENT
> * CASHFLOW
>
> So your query to get the sum of a single agent would be looking like:
>
> select
> sum(CHASFLOW)
> where
> AGENT = 'Agent'
> and MONTH between values;
>
> It might be a little more work to create a GUI for that (or map this model to
> the existing GUI) but it is much simpler to maintain and work with.

agree. it is also possible to use partitioning.

Regards, Andreas

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