I want to display a pivot table for the following data. I have a table with the 10000 records.
Table: Mat_test
CREATE TABLE Mat_test AS SELECT DISTINCT 1 + floor(random() * 1500000)::integer AS id, 2 + floor(random() * 1600000)::integer AS Numbers FROM generate_series(1, 10000) g; Now creating function from which I want to display the crosstab table for the above records:
Function: Mat_test_cross_tab
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Mat_test_cross_tab (_retType anyelement , table_name varchar) RETURNS SETOF anyelement AS $BODY$ DECLARE query varchar; cols varchar; cols1 varchar; cols2 varchar; BEGIN cols := 'SELECT string_agg(numbers::varchar,'','') from '||table_name||''; execute cols into cols1; cols1 := 'SELECT REPLACE('''||cols1||''','','','' " INT,"'')'; execute cols1 into cols2; cols2 := '"'||cols2||'" INT'; raise info '%',cols2; query := 'SELECT * FROM Crosstab ( '' SELECT id,numbers,count(*) as t from '||table_name||' group by 1,2 order by 1,2'', $$select distinct numbers from '||table_name||'$$ ) AS (id integer,'||cols2')'; RAISE INFO '%',query; RETURN QUERY EXECUTE query; END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL; Now I am creating function for creating the user defined type for returning the result set of the above function.
Function: Type_mat
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Type_mat(table_name varchar) RETURNS VOID AS $BODY$ DECLARE query varchar; cols varchar; cols1 varchar; cols2 varchar; BEGIN cols := 'SELECT string_agg(numbers::varchar,'','') from '||table_name||''; execute cols into cols1; cols1 := 'SELECT REPLACE('''||cols1||''','','',''" INT,"'')'; execute cols1 into cols2; cols2 := '"'||cols2||'" INT'; query := 'CREATE TYPE Type_for_mat AS ( id integer, '||cols2||' )'; RAISE INFO '%',query; EXECUTE query; END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL; Call:
SELECT Type_mat('mat_test'); Getting an error:
ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns
array. I mean in functionType_mator inMat_test_cross_tab?