On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:25:00 -0600,
Aaron Colflesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> #2 would seem to be the simplest except I'm really not too keen on the
> idea of manipulating a table like that on the fly (even though I did
> proof of concept it and it seems to be simple enough to be fairly safe
> if adequate checks for entries on table B are put into the system). Does
> anyone know of a 3rd way of doing it? It seems like this shouldn't be an
> all that uncommon task, so I'm hoping there is some slick way of maybe
> putting together a function or view to return data rows with a flexible
> field layout. So far all the in-db tricks I've come up with have
> required me to know what the field names were to generate the final
> query anyway, so they don't really gain me anything.
Couldn't you let the user creating a view joining A and B?
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