Hi all The thought just occurred to me that a PIVOT feature might be a respectable GSoC project.
tablefunc/crosstab works, but it's very clumsy to use, and difficult to consume the data from. Going by Stack Overflow activity, pivot/crosstab is second only to upsert when it comes to things that users find hard to do in Pg. I haven't investigated what'd be involved in implementing any integrated form of pivoting, and I'm aware that there are some serious challenges when it comes to generating a TupleDesc for pivot output. I thought I'd raise it in case anyone has looked into this and has any comments on whether this'd be a viable GSoC for an interested student. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
