Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-16 Thread nkunkov
Thank you very much. Much appreciated. NK - Original Message - From: Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 14, 2006 2:50 pm Subject: Re: Dynamic table with variable number of columns > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 13:38:34 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 13:38:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Thanks again. > One more question. Will crosstab function work if i will not know the > number/names of columns before hand? Or I need to supply colum > headings? I checked a bit into this, and the actual contrib name is

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-13 Thread nkunkov
Hi, Thanks again. One more question. Will crosstab function work if i will not know the number/names of columns before hand? Or I need to supply colum headings? Thanks again. NK Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:08:15 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thank you for t

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-13 Thread nkunkov
table with variable number of columns > if i understand well you need to have an history for your products. > i would have a table B with > date   products    price > 1/1/2006 prod1 1.0 > 1/1/2006 prod2 3.0 > > or repl

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-12 Thread nkunkov
Hi Thomas, No I actually need the product name (prod1, prod2) to become column headings, which is effectively transposing the table. Thanks. NK Thomas Burdairon wrote: > if i understand well you need to have an history for your products. > i would have a table B with > date produ

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:08:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestions. > I will try to describe the problem better. > I have two problems to solve. First one is that I have to transpose a > table. > I have table A that looks like this: > date product price

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Burdairon
if i understand well you need to have an history for your products.i would have a table B withdate           products            price1/1/2006     prod1                 1.01/1/2006     prod2                 3.0or replace prod_name py product_id, ... Thomas On Jul 12, 2006, at 16:08, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-12 Thread nkunkov
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:05:18 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a pgsql novice and here is what I'm trying to do: > > 1.I need to create a dynamic table with the column names fetched > > from the database using a select statement from some other

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:05:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I'm a pgsql novice and here is what I'm trying to do: > 1.I need to create a dynamic table with the column names fetched > from the database using a select statement from some other table. Is > it possible? Could yo

[GENERAL] Dynamic table with variable number of columns

2006-07-11 Thread nkunkov
Hello, I'm a pgsql novice and here is what I'm trying to do: 1.I need to create a dynamic table with the column names fetched from the database using a select statement from some other table. Is it possible? Could you point me to a simple example on how to do it? 2. I would like to compare