MySQL complex self join

Question

I having a table like this:

id | name
--------
1  | test
2  | test1
3  | test
4  | test1
5  | test2

I am trying to write a query that will give a result like this

 test   |  test1 | test2
----------------------------
 1      |   2    |   5
 3      |   4    |

And it is very clear there will be only three name, I am trying to write the query, But I couldn't. Can someone help me

Answer 1

Well, just to appease the doubters. Note, I'm not seriously advocating this as a solution, because it's just not very scalable - and making it scalable (via prepared statements and a sproc is, frankly, tedious)...

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table;

CREATE TABLE my_table
(id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
,name VARCHAR(12) NOT NULL
);

INSERT INTO my_table VALUES
(1  ,'test'),
(2  ,'test1'),
(3  ,'test'),
(4  ,'test1'),
(5  ,'test2');


SELECT MAX(CASE WHEN name = 'test' THEN id END) 'test' 
     , MAX(CASE WHEN name = 'test1' THEN id END) 'test1' 
     , MAX(CASE WHEN name = 'test2' THEN id END) 'test2' 
  FROM 
     ( SELECT x.*
            , COUNT(*) rank 
         FROM my_table x 
         JOIN my_table y 
           ON y.name = x.name 
          AND y.id <= x.id 
        GROUP 
           BY id
     ) z GROUP BY rank;

+------+-------+-------+
| test | test1 | test2 |
+------+-------+-------+
|    1 |     2 |     5 |
|    3 |     4 |  NULL |
+------+-------+-------+