transpose column headers to rows in postgresql

Question

I have a view which looks like this

          value1count     value2count value3count
          ----------------------------------------
             25             


        

Answer 1

I had a similar situation. I wrapped my query in a with statement and then did a bunch of UNION ALLs for each row. In my situation, if I had multiple records, the ncm_id would be different, so I went ahead and added that to my column list in my result set. This may not be the best way to do this, but it worked for my use case.

 WITH query_a AS (
     SELECT
       fin_item.item_number || ' - ' || fin_item.item_descrip1 fin_item,
       fin_ls.ls_number,
       ls_sort.sortby_employeeid,
       ls_sort.ncm_id,
       ls_sort.created_at,
       ls_sort.updated_at,
       ls_sort.sort_qty,
       ls_sort.initial_scan_time,
       ls_sort.ncm_scan_time,
       ls_sort.badge_scan_time,
       ls_sort.computer_name,
       ls_sort.number_of_ops,
       ls_sort.ncm_item_scan_time,
       sort_by.name sort_by,
       tblncm.instructions,
       tblncm.ncm_comments
     FROM public.item AS fin_item
       INNER JOIN public.ls AS fin_ls ON fin_item.item_id = fin_ls.ls_item_id
       INNER JOIN stone.ls_sort ON fin_ls.ls_id = ls_sort.ls_id
       INNER JOIN stone.vw_mssql_employees AS sort_by ON ls_sort.sortby_employeeid = sort_by.employeeid
       INNER JOIN stone.tblncm ON ls_sort.ncm_id = tblncm.ncm_id
       LEFT JOIN stone.equips AS mach_equips ON ls_sort.mach_equip_id = mach_equips.id
       LEFT JOIN stone.equips AS mold_equips ON ls_sort.mold_equip_id = mold_equips.id
     WHERE 1 = 1
           AND fin_ls.ls_number ILIKE 'S143027526190' || '%'
 )
   SELECT *
   FROM (
     (SELECT 'fin_item' my_column, fin_item::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'ls_number' my_column, ls_number::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'sortby_employeeid' my_column, sortby_employeeid::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'ncm_id' my_column, ncm_id::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'created_at' my_column, created_at::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'updated_at' my_column, updated_at::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'sort_qty' my_column, sort_qty::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'initial_scan_time' my_column, initial_scan_time::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'ncm_scan_time' my_column, ncm_scan_time::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'badge_scan_time' my_column, badge_scan_time::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'computer_name' my_column, computer_name::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'number_of_ops' my_column, number_of_ops::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'ncm_item_scan_time' my_column, ncm_item_scan_time::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'sort_by' my_column, sort_by::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'instructions' my_column, instructions::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
      UNION ALL
     (SELECT 'ncm_comments' my_column, ncm_comments::TEXT my_value, ncm_id::TEXT my_ncm FROM query_a)
   ) as query_guy
 ORDER BY my_ncm;