On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:27 PM,  <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote:
> Have you tried using "group by"?

Thanks, but that doesn't do it. If I group by ID I loose the CAT,
group by CAT I loose the ID, group by bith and that's just the base
table. Am I missing something?

Regards,
Rich

>> 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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