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From chuydb
Subject Get multiple columns with counts from one table.
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Re: Get multiple columns with counts from one table.
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Hi,
From two columns in my table I want to get a unified count for the values in
these columns.
As an example, two columns are:

Table: reports
|    type        |    place        |
-----------------------------------------
|    one        |    home        |
|    two        |    school    |
|    three        |    work        |
|    four        |    cafe        |
|    five        |    friends    |
|    six         |    mall        |
|    one        |    work        |
|    one        |    work        |
|    three        |    work        |
|    two        |    cafe        |
|    five        |    cafe        |
|    one         |    home        |

If I do:
SELECT type, count(*) from reports
group by type

I get:
|    type        |    count    |
----------------------------------
|    one        |    4    |
|    two        |    2    |
|    three        |    2    |
|    four        |    1    |
|    five        |    2    |
|    six         |    1    |

Im trying to get something like this: (one column with my types grouped
together and multiple columns with the count vales for each place)
I get:
|    type        |    home    |    school    |    work    |    cafe    |    friends    |    mall    |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|    one        |    2    |            |    2    |        |            |        |
|    two        |        |    1        |        |    1    |            |        |
|    three        |        |            |    2    |        |            |        |
|    four        |        |            |        |    1    |            |        |
|    five        |        |            |        |    1    |    1        |        |
|    six         |        |            |        |        |            |    1    |

which would be the result of running a count for every place like this:
SELECT type, count(*) from reports where place  = 'home'
group by type
SELECT type, count(*) from reports where place  = 'school'
group by type
SELECT type, count(*) from reports where place  = 'work'
group by type
SELECT type, count(*) from reports where place  = 'cafe'
group by type
SELECT type, count(*) from reports where place  = 'friends'
group by type
SELECT type, count(*) from reports where place  = 'mall'
group by type

Is this possible with postgresql???

Thanks in advance.




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