pajama

I believe that the answer you need is a user-defined aggregate, similar to this one:

CREATE FUNCTION gc_init(dummy VARCHAR(255)) RETURNING LVARCHAR;
    RETURN '';
END FUNCTION;
CREATE FUNCTION gc_iter(result LVARCHAR, value VARCHAR(255))
    RETURNING LVARCHAR;
    IF result = '' THEN
        RETURN TRIM(value);
    ELSE
        RETURN result || ',' || TRIM(value);
    END IF;
END FUNCTION;
CREATE FUNCTION gc_comb(partial1 LVARCHAR, partial2 LVARCHAR)
    RETURNING LVARCHAR;
    RETURN partial1 || ',' || partial2;
END FUNCTION;
CREATE FUNCTION gc_fini(final LVARCHAR) RETURNING LVARCHAR;
    RETURN final;
END FUNCTION;
CREATE AGGREGATE group_concat
    WITH (INIT = gc_init, ITER = gc_iter,
          COMBINE = gc_comb, FINAL = gc_fini);

Given a table of elements (called elements) with a column called name containing (funnily enough) the element name, and another column called atomic_number, this query produces this result:

SELECT group_concat(name) FROM elements WHERE atomic_number < 10;
Hydrogen,Helium,Lithium,Beryllium,Boron,Carbon,Nitrogen,Oxygen,Fluorine

Applied to the question, you should obtain the answer you need from:

SELECT id, group_concat(codes)
    FROM anonymous_table
    GROUP BY id;

CREATE TEMP TABLE anonymous_table
(
    id      INTEGER NOT NULL,
    codes   CHAR(4) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (id, codes)
);
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(63592, 'PELL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(58640, 'SUBL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(58640, 'USBL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(73571, 'PELL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(73571, 'USBL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(73571, 'SUBL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(73572, 'USBL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(73572, 'PELL');
INSERT INTO anonymous_table VALUES(73572, 'SUBL');
SELECT id, group_concat(codes)
    FROM anonymous_table
    GROUP BY id
    ORDER BY id;

The output from that is:

58640 SUBL,USBL
63592 PELL
73571 PELL,SUBL,USBL
73572 PELL,SUBL,USBL

The extra set of data was added to test whether insert sequence affected the result; it appears not to do so (the codes are in sorted order; I'm not sure whether there's a way to alter - reverse - that order).

Note that this aggregate should be usable for any type that can be converted to VARCHAR(255), which means any numeric or temporal type. Long CHAR columns and blob types (BYTE, TEXT, BLOB, CLOB) are not handled.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/715350/show-a-one-to-many-relationship-as-2-columns-1-unique-row-id-comma-separate?answertab=votes#tab-top

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489081/group-concat-in-informix