So what you are doing is transforming the table format from vertical to horizontal. I think you will want to use a union to join the table to itself along with the case statement to produce the output you are looking for.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:37 AM Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:24, Moreno Andreo <moreno.andreo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> |foo |bar |baz |
> 1234
> 5678
> 9012
> (hoping text formatting is ok... 1234 should go in column foo, 568 in
> bar and 9012 in baz)
>
> Is it possible?
Simplest way in plain SQL would be individual case statements for each
column, I think.
SELECT pattern,
CASE WHEN pattern LIKE 'foo%' THEN SUBSTR(pattern, 4) ELSE '' END AS foo
CASE WHEN pattern LIKE 'bar%' THEN SUBSTR(pattern, 4) ELSE '' END AS bar
CASE WHEN pattern LIKE 'baz%' THEN SUBSTR(pattern, 4) ELSE '' END AS baz
FROM tbl;
Geoff
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