Re: Speeding up loops in pl/pgsql function

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Reuven M. Lerner <reuven@lerner.co.il> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> First of all, thanks for all of your help several days ago.  The
> improvements to our program were rather dramatic (in a positive sense).
>
> Based on the help that everyone gave, I'm working on something similar,
> trying to use regexp_replace to transform a string into the result of
> invoking a function on each character.  For example, I'd like to do the
> following:
>
> regexp_replace('abc', '(.)', ascii(E'\\1')::text, 'g');
>
> Unfortunately, the above invokes ascii() on the literal string E'\\1',
> rather than on the value of the backreference, which isn't nearly as useful.
>  I'd like to get '979899' back as a string.  And of course, once I can get
> back the value of ascii(), I figure that it should work for any function
> that I define.
>
> Thanks again for any suggestions everyone might have.
>
> (And if this should go to pgsql-general, then I'll understand.  If it helps,
> my alternative to regexp_replace is a super-slow function, akin to the one
> that I showed here last week.)

select string_agg(v, '') from (select
ascii(regexp_split_to_table('abc', $$\s*$$))::text as v) q;

(what about 3 digit ascii codes?)

merlin