From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Tille, Andreas <TilleA@rki.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Turning column into row
Date: 22 May 2002 10:56:47 +0100
Message-ID: <1022061408.1400.1042.camel@linda> (raw)
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On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 08:35, Tille, Andreas wrote:
>
> So I have to turn the different properties according to one item into
> one field insead of one column.
>
> How to do this sanely?
Use Perl?
According to Joe Celko's book, SQL For Smarties, Sybase provides a
LIST() aggregate function that does this. But I don't know of anything
in PostgreSQL.
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