On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:33 , Dave wrote:
> I guess, I can always
> set up views with joins, but could not come up with a good way to
> query this
> in a one returned row, e.g.:
> ID | Name | colors | fav_col | kind
> | fav_kind | etc.
> 11 | Apples | red, green, etc. | red | Granny smith, Golden
> delicious.. | Granny smith | etc.
You can either do it in your middleware or use array_accum.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/xaggr.html
The archives have examples of doing things like this.
Note that *this* is the problem you're trying to solve, not the
serialization issue you're having above. I recommend changing your
schema.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net