It's possible, but not on the SQL end. You'll have to do the work on the
display end. If you're using PHP or Perl I'd be happy to give you a hand.
-DEJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:47 PM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [SQL] Odd "problem", not sure if there is a solution ....
>
>
>
> am working up a database for client that contains answers for online
> testing...right now, the 'tables' look like:
>
> userid Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 etc
>
> I want to change it so that its more generic, as:
>
> userid question_no answer
>
> so that instead of one row per user, there are X rows...
>
> the problem is that, somehow, I want the client to be able to view the
> results as the first format (ie. one line per user) with it
> being stored
> as multiple lines per user...
>
> Possible?
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664
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