2010/12/28 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmit...@gmail.com>

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> 2010/12/28 Alexander Farber <alexander.far...@gmail.com>
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> Hello,
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>> I'm working on a small app, which receives a list of 20 players in XML
>> format.
>>
>> The initial version works ok and I use there just 1 SQL statement and thus
>> it is easy for me to fetch results row by row and print XML at the same
>> time:
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>>                                            select u.id,
>>                                            u.first_name,
>>                                            u.city,
>>                                            u.avatar,
>>                                            m.money,
>>                                            u.login > u.logout as online
>>                                     from pref_users u, pref_money m where
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>> m.yw=to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-IW') and
>>                                            u.id=m.id
>>                                     order by m.money desc
>>                                     limit 20 offset ?
>>
>> My problem is however, that I need to add more data for each user
>> representing their statistics over the last 20 weeks.
>> And that data is in separate tables: pref_money, pref_pass, pref_game:
>>
>> # select yw, money
>> from pref_money where id='OK122471020773'
>> order by yw desc limit 20;
>>   yw    | money
>> ---------+-------
>>  2010-52 |   760
>>  2010-51 |  3848
>>  2010-50 |  4238
>>  2010-49 |  2494
>>  2010-48 |   936
>>  2010-47 |  3453
>>  2010-46 |  3923
>>  2010-45 |  1110
>>  2010-44 |   185
>> (9 rows)
>>
> SELECT string_agg(yw::text || money::text, ';');
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Sorry,
SELECT string_agg(yw::text || ':' || money::text, ';');

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>> For example for the table above I'd like to concatenate
>> those rows and add them as an XML attribute for that user:
>>
>> <user id="OK122471020773" first_name="..." city="..." ...
>>    pref_money="2010-52:760;2010-51:3848;2010-50:4238;...." />
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>> so that I can take that attribute in my app and use it in a chart.
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>> My problem is that I don't know how to bring this together
>> in 1 SQL statement (i.e. the SQL statement at the top and
>> then the concatenated 20 rows from 3 tables).
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>> Is it possible? Maybe I need to write a PgPlSQL
>> procedure for each of the 3 tables and then add them
>> to the SQL statement above? But how do I concatenate
>> the rows, should I create a PgPlSQL variable and always
>> append values to it in a loop or is there a better way?
>>
>> Thank you for any hints
>> Alex
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