Re: query or design question

On Monday 20 October 2003 11:58, Adam Witney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table like so
>
> CREATE TABLE imagene (
> id             int
> bioassay_id    int
> gene_id        text
> s_row          int
> s_column       int
> s_meta_row     int
> s_meta_column  int
> sig_median     numeric
> bkg_median     numeric
> );

> And I need to generate an output like this......
>
>              bioassay_id=106        bioassay_id=107
>          ----------------------  ----------------------
> gene_id, sig_median, bkg_median, sig_median, bkg_median


> I am not sure if a crosstab function will do this?

There are some examples in contrib/tablefunc that might well be useful for 
you. You should also check out the "Set Returning Functions" article on 
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/

If you find your requirements getting particularly complex, I'd be tempted to 
do the hard work in the application.

--  Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd