Re: array question

That's exactly what I needed.   Thanks very much!

-Whit


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:
> On 09/10/2009 17:17, Whit Armstrong wrote:
>> Is there any easy way to get this data:
>>
>> kls_dev=# select * from ary_values;
>>  agent_name | myval
>> ------------+-------
>>  a          |     1
>>  a          |     2
>>  a          |     3
>>  b          |     4
>>  b          |     5
>>  b          |     6
>> (6 rows)
>>
>> to look like this:
>>
>> kls_dev=# select * from ary_test;
>>  agent_name |  vals
>> ------------+---------
>>  a          | {1,2,3}
>>  b          | {4,5,6}
>> (2 rows)
>
> Someone (Alvaro?) once posted a really handy aggregate which ought to do
> what you want:
>
>  CREATE AGGREGATE array_accum(anyelement) (
>    SFUNC=array_append,
>    STYPE=anyarray,
>    INITCOND='{}'
>  );
>
> And then you'd call it like so:
>
>  select agent_name, array_accum(myval) from ary_values
>    group by agent_name;
>
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Ray.
>
>
>
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