On Aug 8, 2007, at 11:41 , Decibel! wrote:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:18:32PM -0700, Jeremy Drake wrote:
select * from information_schema._pg_expandarray(ARRAY['foo', 'bar', 'baz']);x | n -----+--- foo | 1 bar | 2 baz | 3 (3 rows) Not exactly well documented or well known, but it works.Worse than that, that's something that's entirely internal and couldchange at any release. The fact that it exists for info_schema indicatesfurther need for these functions to exist in the backend.
Personally, I think expandarray is more appropriate and its functionality probably more generally useful, as it identifies the array indices as well. Note you can also rename the columns.
select * from information_schema._pg_expandarray(ARRAY['foo', 'bar', 'baz']) as b(a,i);
a | i -----+--- foo | 1 bar | 2 baz | 3 (3 rows)array_to_set really isn't, as AFAICS it didn't guarantee element uniqueness (but that's just a naming issue).
Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net
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