Pivoting Rows into Columns¶

Let us understand how we can pivot rows into columns in Postgres.

Actual results

order_date	order_status	count
2013-07-25 00:00:00	CANCELED	1
2013-07-25 00:00:00	CLOSED	20
2013-07-25 00:00:00	COMPLETE	42
2013-07-25 00:00:00	ON_HOLD	5
2013-07-25 00:00:00	PAYMENT_REVIEW	3
2013-07-25 00:00:00	PENDING	13
2013-07-25 00:00:00	PENDING_PAYMENT	41
2013-07-25 00:00:00	PROCESSING	16
2013-07-25 00:00:00	SUSPECTED_FRAUD	2
2013-07-26 00:00:00	CANCELED	3
2013-07-26 00:00:00	CLOSED	29
2013-07-26 00:00:00	COMPLETE	87
2013-07-26 00:00:00	ON_HOLD	19
2013-07-26 00:00:00	PAYMENT_REVIEW	6
2013-07-26 00:00:00	PENDING	31
2013-07-26 00:00:00	PENDING_PAYMENT	59
2013-07-26 00:00:00	PROCESSING	30
2013-07-26 00:00:00	SUSPECTED_FRAUD	5

Pivoted results

order_date	CANCELED	CLOSED	COMPLETE	ON_HOLD	PAYMENT_REVIEW	PENDING	PENDING_PAYMENT	PROCESSING	SUSPECTED_FRAUD
2013-07-25	1	20	42	5	3	13	41	16	2
2013-07-26	3	29	87	19	6	31	59	30	5

We need to use crosstab as part of FROM clause to pivot the data. We need to pass the main query to crosstab function.
We need to install tablefunc as Postgres superuser to expose functions like crosstab - CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;

Note

If you are using environment provided by us, you don’t need to install tablefunc. If you are using your own environment run this command by logging in as superuser into postgres server to install tablefunc.

CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;

However, in some cases you might have to run scripts in postgres. Follow official instructions by searching around.

%load_ext sql

%env DATABASE_URL=postgresql://itversity_retail_user:retail_password@localhost:5432/itversity_retail_db

%%sql

SELECT order_date,
    order_status,
    count(1)
FROM orders
GROUP BY order_date,
    order_status
ORDER BY order_date,
    order_status
LIMIT 18

%%sql

SELECT * FROM crosstab(
    'SELECT order_date,
        order_status,
        count(1) AS order_count
    FROM orders
    GROUP BY order_date,
        order_status',
    'SELECT DISTINCT order_status FROM orders ORDER BY 1'
) AS (
    order_date DATE,
    "CANCELED" INT,
    "CLOSED" INT,
    "COMPLETE" INT,
    "ON_HOLD" INT,
    "PAYMENT_REVIEW" INT,
    "PENDING" INT,
    "PENDING_PAYMENT" INT,
    "PROCESSING" INT,
    "SUSPECTED_FRAUD" INT
)
LIMIT 10

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Pivoting Rows into Columns¶