Re: Join field values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Join field values
Date
Msg-id 1181063590.7660.103.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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In response to Join field values  (veejar <veejar.net@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:33 +0300, veejar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have such field in my table:
>
> field1
> -------
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
>
>
> I want to get such result from select:
> '1,2,3,4,5' - join all values in field1 with ','
> // result must be varchar.
>

Look into writing a simple function:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql.html

Also, consider that you should have an ORDER BY somewhere, to make sure
the values get joined in the order that you expect.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis


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