Re: [GENERAL] rows and array

2005-02-22 Thread FERREIRA William (COFRAMI)
Title: RE: [GENERAL] rows and array i don't want to do the re-ordering on the client side. i want a stored procedure which extract some rows from a database into an array. next i have a function for re-ordering the array depending on specific needs and finally generate a XML file o

Re: [GENERAL] rows and array

2005-02-22 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton writes: > FERREIRA William (COFRAMI) wrote: >> i can store rows and re-order them like this : >> children(i-j) := children(i-j-1); > Well, I'd look at one of three solutions: > 1. Functional index to order by > 2. Temporary table (read up on EXECUTE and OID caching) > 3. pl/p

Re: [GENERAL] rows and array

2005-02-22 Thread Richard Huxton
FERREIRA William (COFRAMI) wrote: i want do to it in a stored procedure using the pl/pgSQL language. i can't use "ORDER by" because the traitment is very specific. for example, in oracle syntaxe i can create my own type : type recordChild is TABLE OF XDB_CHILD%ROWTYPE and next when i declar

Re: [GENERAL] rows and array

2005-02-22 Thread FERREIRA William (COFRAMI)
Title: RE: [GENERAL] rows and array i want do to it in a stored procedure using the pl/pgSQL language. i can't use "ORDER by" because the traitment is very specific. for example, in oracle syntaxe i can create my own type :     type recordChild is TABLE OF XDB_CHILD%R

Re: [GENERAL] rows and array

2005-02-22 Thread Richard Huxton
FERREIRA William (COFRAMI) wrote: hi does postgresql allows to store rows into array ? i select rows in a table and i would like to sort them depending on my criteria. Is this different from SELECT a,b,c FROM t ORDER BY a ASC, b DESC; If so, could you specify more details - what language you are