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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: lucas@presserv.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Table like a field
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:19:45 +0000
Message-ID: <422F0601.70103@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050309104616.8cjneru7plccgss4@www.presserv.org>
References: <20050309104616.8cjneru7plccgss4@www.presserv.org>

lucas@presserv.org wrote:
> Hello.
> Is there any way to build a table that contain the coluns name for the other
> table fields? like this:
> 
>  create table people(id serial primary key, name varchar(50) );
>  create table people_fields ( field_name varchar(30) );
>  insert into people_fields values ('occupation');
>  insert into people_fields values ('address');
> 
>  then I create any function or view to get:
>  SELECT * FROM people; //may return
> 
>  id - name - | ocuppation - address |

You'll want to search the mailing-list archives for "crosstab", and also 
look in the contrib/ section of the source distribution.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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