Hello

postgres=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.reduce_dim(anyarray)
 RETURNS SETOF anyarray
 LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $function$
DECLARE s $1%type;
BEGIN
  FOREACH s SLICE 1  IN ARRAY $1 LOOP
      RETURN NEXT s;
  END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
$function$;
CREATE FUNCTION

postgres=# select reduce_dim(array[array[1, 2], array[2, 3]]);
 reduce_dim
------------
 {1,2}
 {2,3}
(2 rows)

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2013/11/28 Zev Benjamin <zev-pg...@strangersgate.com>

> It appears that unnest, when called on a multi-dimensional array,
> effectively flattens the array first.  For example:
>
> => select * from unnest(array[array[1, 2], array[2, 3]]);
>  unnest
> --------
>       1
>       2
>       2
>       3
> (4 rows)
>
> while I would have expect something like the following:
>
> => select * from unnest(array[array[1, 2], array[2, 3]]);
>  unnest
> --------
>    {1, 2}
>    {2, 3}
> (2 rows)
>
> Is there any way to get the latter behavior?
>
>
> Zev
>
>
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