On Jan 19, 2006, at 21:03 , Sean Davis wrote:
I have a table that stores data like so:
Create table raw_vals (
expt_id int,
clone_idx int,
val numeric,
primary key (expt_id,clone_idx)
);
And I would like to design a query that gives:
Clone_idx expt_id_1 expt_id_2 ....
1 0.7834 0.8231 ....
2 0.2832 1.2783 ....
There are several tens-of-thousands of clone_idx entries, so doing
this
quickly may not even be possible. Any suggestions on how to go
from this
normalized structure to the denormalized form easily. Note that
this isn't
exactly a crosstab, since there is no counting data, just reshaping.
As far as I know, the crosstab functions in contrib/tablefunc will
still do what you want. Another way is to have as many (self) joins
as you want columns.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com
