Re: Expressing a result set as an array (and vice versa)?

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:17:08AM +0100, PFC wrote:
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foreach( liste INTEGER[] ) RETURNS SETOF
> INTEGER AS $$
> DECLARE
> i INTEGER;
> BEGIN
> FOR i IN 1..icount(liste) LOOP
> RETURN NEXT liste[i];
> END LOOP;
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Seems like this should really exist in the backend...

> CREATE AGGREGATE array_accum (
> sfunc = array_append,
> basetype = anyelement,
> stype = anyarray,
> initcond = '{}'
> );
>
> SELECT array_accum( DISTINCT list_id ) FROM bookmarks;
> array_accum
> ---------------
> {1,2,3,4,5,7}

Couldn't you just use array()?
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