Re: How may I keep prepended array items positive?

From: Matthew Peter <survivedsushi(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How may I keep prepended array items positive?
Date: 2005-11-01 06:22:14
Message-ID: 20051101062214.7391.qmail@web35211.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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I want to use it like this...

UPDATE SET _array = {1,2,3} || _array;

Which if _array had {1} in it, I'd get something like
[-2:1]{1,1,2,3} as the range... I only want it to push
the existing values to the right so I'd have
[1:4]{1,1,2,3}

I don't have a pgsql on this box to show output..

--- Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:37:39PM -0800, Matthew
> Peter wrote:
> > I would need to prepend a couple array items BUT I
> > NEED them to be positive [1:13] instead of [-4:9]
> for
> > instance.
> >
> > How may I keep prepended array items positive?
>
> You could use array-to-array concatenation instead
> of prepending
> (aka element-to-array concatenation):
>
> test=> SELECT 99 || ARRAY[1, 2, 3]; -- unwanted
> results
> ?column?
> ------------------
> [0:3]={99,1,2,3}
> (1 row)
>
> test=> SELECT ARRAY[99] || ARRAY[1, 2, 3]; --
> desired results
> ?column?
> ------------
> {99,1,2,3}
> (1 row)
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
>


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