Re: [patch] Proposal for \crosstabview in psql

On 3/13/16 12:48 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> crosstabview is really visualization tool. **But now, there are not any
> other tool available from terminal.** So this can be significant help to
> all people who would to use this functionality.

Not just the terminal either. Offhand I'm not aware of *any* fairly 
simple tool that provides crosstab. There's a bunch of 
complicated/expensive BI tools that do, but unless you've gone through 
the trouble of getting one of those setup you're currently pretty stuck.

Ultimately I'd really like some way to remove/reduce the restriction of 
result set definitions needing to be determined at plan time. That would 
open the door for server-side crosstab/pivot as well a a host of other 
things (such as dynamically turning a hstore/json/xml field into a 
recordset).
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