"David Blewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a vote for allowing this in plain SQL.
> I use the tablefunc contrib module as a way to build a view of a > specific questionnaire's responses (using Elein's nice model here > [1]). Currently, if I then write queries against these views that > include WHERE clauses they don't perform very well as the underlying > data size grows. I was using the afore-mentioned large view that casts > everything to text, but recently I started using separate calls to the > crosstab function for each underlying table, then joining them > together based on their response ID. This seems to work much better > for more complex queries, but I think it would still be beneficial to > have access to these qualifiers so I could push down to each subquery > the list of response ID's to pull. I don't have access to sample SQL > at the moment, but if it is wanted I can try to get that this week. Please. Some real use-cases would be very helpful here. I'm particularly wondering whether the proposed deparse call actually yields anything that's useful without extensive additional knowledge about the query ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers