How can I use “postgres_group_concat” for retrieving the interest group?
I am currently working on a database schema for a social media platform where users can join multiple interest groups. How can I utilize the “GROUP_CONCAT” or other similar functions in PostgreSQL for retrieving the interest group of a user?
If you want to concatenate values by using the “Postgres group_concat” in SQL then there is a “STRING_AGG” which can ease the task for you. It can concatenate values from diverse or multiple rows into a single string even with a required delimiter. Another tool that can help you with this could be “GROUP_CONCAT”.
Here is the example query given:-
SELECT user_id, STRING_AGG( interest_ group, ',') AS joined_groups
FROM user_interests
GROUP BY user_id;
This above coding analogy can certainly retrieve the interest group of users from the “user_interests” table and then it will group them by using the “user_id”.
Here is the example given:-
Assume the user_interests table:
User_id interest_group
1 Sports
1 Music
2 Movies
2 Sports
2 Travel
Running the provided.STRING_AGG query would output:
User_id joined_groups
1 Sports, Music
2 Movies, Sports, Travel