Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:53:41 +0200
From: "A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: dynamic columns in a query
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In response to Jyoti Seth :
> Hi All,
> 
> Is there any way in postgres to write a query to display the result in
> matrix form. (where column names are dynamic)
> 
> For eg.
> 
> 
> Employee Name	Client1	Client2	Client3	Client4
> Emp1			100		102		90		23
> Emp2			56		0		23		98
> Emp3			34		45		76		0
> 
> 
> Here Client1, Client2... are the values from the database.

There is a contrib-modul, tablefunc. It contains a crosstab-function.
Maybe this can help you. Other solution: write a function in plpgsql and
build a string that contains your query, and EXECUTE that string.


Andreas
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