Re: Putting an aggregate value in an UPDATE statement... - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From rajanski
Subject Re: Putting an aggregate value in an UPDATE statement...
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In response to Putting an aggregate value in an UPDATE statement...  (John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>)
List pgsql-novice
Okay I have a similar but seemingly more complicated Problem with aggregate
values in an UPDATE statement:

update test set ew_data_vm_fraction =
array_agg(unnest(ew_data_vm) * area_percentage)

gives me the obvious "ERROR: cannot use aggregate function in UPDATE"
message

when I set i in parentheses

update test set ew_data_vm_fraction =
(select array_agg(unnest(ew_data_vm) * area_percentage)
from test

it results in the message: "ERROR: set-valued function called in context
that cannot accept a set"

i am really desperate,what can I try else?

Greeting

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