From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pacquet@newsguy.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: "Inverting" a table, OLAP-style
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:55:32 -0400
Message-ID: <27213.1032188132@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209132318.QAA09972@newsguy.com>
References: <200209132318.QAA09972@newsguy.com>
pacquet@newsguy.com writes:
> ... I know we could use Pivot Tables in
> Excel, or otherwise do it on the client, but the highest-leverage solution
> would be to present this abstraction in the server.
Joe Conway's contrib/tablefunc module (new for 7.3) has a "crosstab"
facility that I think might do what you want. Perhaps you'd like to
snag a 7.3 beta copy and try it out.
regards, tom lane
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