2009/12/11 Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com>: > Simon Windsor wrote: > >> Are there any plans to embed crosstab within the main release of >> Postgres, rather than as a Contrib component. >> >> Also, are there plans to enhance crosstab along the lines of Oracle 11g >> of pivot command? > > I think the standard spelling of this feature is GROUPING SETS along > with syntactical sugar CUBE and ROLLUP. There was a patch for this > posted some time ago but it doesn't look like it has moved forward > lately. > > Barring GROUPING SETS, it is very unlikely that crosstab or pivot are > going to make it into the core.
I plan start to work on GROUPING SETS early. What I know - GROUPING SETS feature is independent on PIVOT/UNPIVOT feature. Personally I thing so implementation of PIVOT is simpler than implementation of GROUPING SETS. Regards Pavel Stehule > -- > Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
