Cross Tab Functions

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style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana">HelloAll, </span></font></span><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><br/><span class="postbody1">I have used the cross tab function to setup
tablesthat display months' data, however i need to display years data instead of the months.. so i would display 2006
asa column, 2007 as a colum and 2008 as a column. when i tried to modify the simple example of the cross tab (shown
below)</span><br /><span class="postbody1">SELECT i.item_name::text As row_name, to_char(if.action_date, 'year')::text
Asbucket, </span><br /><span class="postbody1">SUM(if.num_used)::integer As bucketvalue </span><br /><span
class="postbody1">FROMinventory As i INNER JOIN inventory_flow As if </span><br /><span class="postbody1">ON i.item_id
=if.item_id </span><br /><span class="postbody1">WHERE (if.num_used <> 0 AND if.num_used IS NOT NULL) </span><br
/><spanclass="postbody1">AND action_date BETWEEN date '2007-01-01' and date '2008-12-31 23:59' </span><br /><span
class="postbody1">GROUPBY i.item_name, to_char(if.action_date, 'year'), date_part('year', if.action_date) </span><br
/><spanclass="postbody1">ORDER BY i.item_name, date_part('year', if.action_date); </span><br /><br /><span
class="postbody1">basicallyi changed the mon and the month to be year.. the system displayed something that i am not
sureabout. is there a command that converts the year similar to the mon </span><br /><br /><span class="postbody1">Help
again...Please</span></span></font><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span
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