Re: Turning column into row

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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