> given that answers for a questionnaire are stored as a
> batch
Not in our setup - for all sorts of reasons (preserving responses on a connection failure or restart, monitoring
responselatency in real time, creating adaptive/branching questionnaires) we send each response separately.
> people running reports on will be the ones to notice, i.e. at
> retrieval time.
I am not sure - different responses are aggregated into different attributes in different ways - those properties need
tobe retrieved during scoring/report generation, so being able to create a join directly on a response is a good thing
forme. But report generation - in our case it must be a DTP quality PDF - is such a beast anyway that db times dwarf
comparedto pdf generation.
The problem comes when I need to present the responses themselves in a human-friendly way - as an export or display or
report.Do you think there is a way to ensure that the order of the values in the array below is the same for each
person?
tbl(eID, aID, value)
Select eID, array_accum(value) from
(
(Select Distinct eID from tbl) e
CROSS JOIN
(Select Distinct aID from tbl) a
) ea
LEFT OUTER JOIN
tbl USING (eID, aID)
GROUP BY eID
Thx for the help.
B.
