On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:37:29PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > I'm sure this has been answered before, but the search seems to be down > again. > > How can I convert the results of a subselect into an array? IE: > > CREATE TABLE a(a int, b int, c int[]); > INSERT INTO table_a > SELECT a, b, (SELECT c FROM table_c WHERE table_c.parent = table_b.id) > FROM table_b
See the "Array Constructors" section in the PostgreSQL documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-expressions.html#SQL-SYNTAX-ARRAY-CONSTRUCTORS INSERT INTO table_a SELECT a, b, ARRAY(SELECT c FROM table_c WHERE table_c.parent = table_b.id) FROM table_b -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
