Re: not quite a cross tab query... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From darren@ontrenet.com
Subject Re: not quite a cross tab query...
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In response to not quite a cross tab query...  (Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: not quite a cross tab query...  (Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood@gmail.com>)
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Have you tried using "group by"?

> Hello pgsql listers,
>
> I've got a problem that is similar to, but I don't think identical to,
> a cross tab query. My data looks like:
>   ID | CAT
>   1  |   A
>   1  |   B
>   2  |   A
>   2  |   C
> So for each ID there may be many CAT (categories).
> The client wants it to look like:
>   ID | CATS
>   1  |  A,B
>   2  |  A,C
> Where each ID is unique in the results, and the CAT values are
> concatenated with a comma separator.
>
> There are about 100 unique CAT values. They only way I can see to do
> it is programatically with a for loop. But before I do that I wanted
> to bounce it off the fine minds that inhabit this list.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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