Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:21:05 -0600
From: Caleb Simonyi-Gindele <csg@bordervet.ca>
Subject: contrib/tablefunc crosstab
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Hi,

I am using the crosstab function by Joe Conway and I am having a problem
that could be my fault but I'm not sure.

My query/result is:

atc=# SELECT * FROM crosstab('SELECT cli_tran_trans_date,
TRIM(dat_staff_code) AS dat_staff_code, SUM(cli_tran_amount) from vetpmardet
WHERE cli_tran_trans_date BETWEEN ''2003-06-01'' AND ''2003-06-05'' AND
TRIM(dat_staff_code) NOT LIKE '''' GROUP BY cli_tran_trans_date,
dat_staff_code ORDER BY 1,2;',5) AS vetpmardet(date date, vet1 numeric, vet2
numeric, vet3 numeric, vet4 numeric, vet5 numeric);

    date    |  vet1  |  vet2   |  vet3   |  vet4  |  vet5
------------+--------+---------+---------+--------+--------
 2003-06-01 | 561.99 |         |         |        |
 2003-06-02 | 418.43 |  548.10 |  790.16 |  54.24 | 467.07
 2003-06-03 | 518.62 | 2115.57 |  630.83 | 195.74 | 548.26
 2003-06-04 | 870.52 |  346.49 |  393.77 | 470.02 |
 2003-06-05 |  74.37 | 3555.10 | 1248.69 | 758.18 |
(5 rows)

My problem is that the rows are populated from right to left irrespective of
the column. So the $561.99 in vet1 actually belongs to vet2. There are never
any blank cells in the middle or start of a row - they always come at the
end. How do I get the amount for that date into the appropriate column?

I am using 7.4.3

Caleb