Re: [GENERAL] integer[] Update Questions

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Ryan Mahoney wrote:
> Wow Oleg, that's great to hear! I am compiling 7.3 from CVS right now.
> If you do have a patch for 7.2 could you send that - I would like to use
> these functions on some production machines running 7.2.1 currently.
>
> Thanks for the prompt response and keep up the great work!
>
> Ryan Mahoney
>
> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 12:40, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Well, CVS version (7.3) of contrib/intarray has:
> > FUNCTIONS:
> >
> > int icount(int[]) - the number of elements in intarray
> > int[] sort(int[], 'asc' | 'desc') - sort intarray
> > int[] sort(int[]) - sort in ascending order
> > int[] sort_asc(int[]),sort_desc(int[]) - shortcuts for sort
> > int[] uniq(int[]) - returns unique elements
> > int idx(int[], int item) - returns index of first intarray matching element to item, or
> > '0' if matching failed.
> > int[] subarray(int[],int START [, int LEN]) - returns part of intarray starting from
> > element number START (from 1) and length LEN.
> >
> > OPERATIONS:
> >
> >
> > int[] && int[] - overlap - returns TRUE if arrays has at least one common elements.
> > int[] @ int[] - contains - returns TRUE if left array contains right array
> > int[] ~ int[] - contained - returns TRUE if left array is contained in right array
> > # int[] - return the number of elements in array
> > int[] + int - push element to array ( add to end of array)
> > int[] + int[] - merge of arrays (right array added to the end of left one)
> > int[] - int - remove entries matched by right argument from array
> > int[] - int[] - remove left array from right
> > int[] | int - returns intarray - union of arguments
> > int[] | int[] - returns intarray as a union of two arrays
> > int[] & int[] - returns intersection of arrays
> >
> >
> > I don't remember if I have a patch for 7.2
> >
> > Oleg
> > On 23 Aug 2002, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
> >
> > > Greeting Hackers! Had some questions about integer array type...
> > >
> > > If I have a integer[] field in a table, which already has the values
> > > {1,2,3,6,17} and I additionally want to add the value '45' to this
> > > array, is there any easier way than SELECTing the current values and
> > > then updating the entire record?
> > >
> > > I see that I could do:
> > > UPDATE table SET array_field[6] = 45 WHERE ...
> > >
> > > But how do I know that 6 is the correct index without first SELECTing
> > > all the data?
> > >
> > > Is there an array push/pop function? Is there a method of counting the
> > > number of integers in an array?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help you can provide - indexable integer arrays are an
> > > incredible feature, thanks for the hard work!
> > >
> > > Ryan Mahoney
> > >
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> >
> > Regards,
> > Oleg
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
> > Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
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