On 6 Dec 2009, at 4:13, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Jose Maria Terry Jimenez > <jtj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm trying to do a crosstab from data that row names are times. >> >> These times are timestamps and i want to use they truncating to minutes >> this works for me: >> >> select distinct date_trunc('minute',"timestamp") as "timestamp" from >> historico order by "timestamp"; >> >> Getting times "normalized" without seconds. >> >> If i do a crosstab using that date_trunc function i get errors. If i do: >> >> select * >> from crosstab >> ( >> 'select date_trunc('minute',"timestamp") as "timestamp",remota,valor from >> historico order by 1,2' >> ) >> as >> (anet timestamp without time zone, >> re1 numeric, >> re2 numeric, >> re3 numeric >> ) >> ; > > Looks like an escaping issue. Try replacing your outer ' with $outer$ > or something like that: It _is_ an escaping issue. The part inside the crosstab consists of 3 literals, namely: 'select date_trunc(' minute ',"timestamp") as "timestamp",remota,valor from historico order by 1,2' You need to escape the quotes around 'minute', either by typing ''minute'' or by using a different quote method for the outer literal as Scott suggested. Your last option is the non-standard \' escaping. Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. !DSPAM:737,4b1b914911734630115167! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general