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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Cc: jim@contactbda.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Better way to write aggregates?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:26:16 -0400
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Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org> writes:
> It would help if booleans could be casted to integer 1/0 :-)

As of 8.1 there is such a cast in the system:

regression=# select 't'::bool::int;
 int4
------
    1
(1 row)

In earlier releases you can make your own.

As for the original question, though: have you looked at the crosstab
functions in contrib/tablefunc?

			regards, tom lane



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