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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Hrishikesh Deshmukh <hdeshmuk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: results being col wise rather than row wise
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote:

> HI All,
>
> I have 5 tables which have different columns as shown below, each table has
> a different case column,
> i want to retrieve sample related information as follows:
>
> pid | xindex | yindex | height Index | flag | case1 | case 2.....etc
>
> But i get this queer result:
> pid        | xindex | yindex | Height Index | flag |     case
> -------------+--------+--------+-------------+-------------+---------
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |      80
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |      83
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |      87
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |     101
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |     129
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |      91
> 102234   |    411 |    271 |           9 |           1 |   120.3
>
> Why is the result in a column wise rather than row wise???!!!!
> Could somebody explain why the redundancy with respect to pi, xindex,
> yindex, height index, flag but the CORRECT values for the cases but not in
> the order expected!!!

Can you give us the specific schema and query you used? We're only going
to be guessing otherwise.