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From news-list.pgsql.sql@innominate.de (Thilo Mezger)
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Responses Re: [SQL] turning a table by 90 degrees  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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hi,

i've got a table like this (plus a primary key and some other fields):

key      | value   | custid
---------+---------+---------
name     | peter   | 2
age      | 123     | 2
foo      | bar     | 2
[...]    |         |
name     | john    | 3
[...]

you can think of a table which is turned by 90 degrees.  this can be
quite useful when you don't know in advance what key/values pairs you
have to store.

now it would be nice to find a query which returns this result for
custid=2:

name  | age | foo
------+-----+------
peter | 123 | bar


any ideas?!

thilo


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