turn the distinct value of columns into a rows postgres

Question

I have a schema like:

 [ad_id] . [name] . [valueofname]
   1 .       name .   "brian"
   1 .       age  .    "23"
   2 .       job  .    "IT"
   2 .       name .    "Jack"

the row name contains multiple values : age , name, birthday, job, age I'd like to convert it into this:

[ad_id] .   [name]  .      [age] .      [birthday] .    [job]
         [valueofname] [valueofname] [valueofname] [valueofname]

I have done the query for each line:

select * from where name='name'
select * from where name='age'
select * from where name='job'

I saw the example SQL Server : Columns to Rows. But it's the opposite of my problem.

Do you have any suggestion for making one scalable query in term of performance?

Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1241178/mysql-rows-to-columns — Sandesh Gupta, Apr 12 '18 at 10:05
@SandeshGupta thanks for but how can i do just a select without creating a view ?? — Medone, Apr 12 '18 at 10:34
@GordonLinoff i am using both mysql and postgres from my app but the case here is in my postgres — Medone, Apr 12 '18 at 10:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '18 at 10:42

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You can use conditional aggregation:

select ad_id,
       max(case when name = 'name' then valueofname end) as name,
       max(case when name = 'age' then valueofname end) as age,
       max(case when name = 'birthday' then valueofname end) as birthday,
       max(case when name = 'job' then valueofname end) as job
from t
group by ad_id;

In SQL Server, you can also do something similar with pivot.

answered Apr 12 '18 at 10:42

Gordon Linoff

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Thanks but here the problem i have a string values so the max and sum will not work – Medone Apr 12 '18 at 11:01
@a_horse_with_no_name what about if i have to do ae WHERE clauson the valueofname to have just type of value needed – Medone Apr 12 '18 at 17:20
@Medone . . . You can cast the value to whatever type you think is appropriate. The data in the database is being stored as a string. However, for retrieving the value (assuming one per `ad_id`), the above is fine. – Gordon Linoff Apr 12 '18 at 23:19
@a_horse_with_no_name if there is no rows returned to replace it as a NULL instead of " " how it would be ? because some names are missing from the database – Medone Apr 15 '18 at 23:32

turn the distinct value of columns into a rows postgres

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