how can I select into an array? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andy Kriger
Subject how can I select into an array?
Date
Msg-id 200402061555.i16Ft6G29410@server1.greaterthanone.com
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Responses Re: how can I select into an array?  (Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz>)
Re: how can I select into an array?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: how can I select into an array?  ("Andy Kriger" <akriger@greaterthanone.com>)
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I would like to select strings from a table and return them as an array
For example,
select new_array(name) from my_tbl
would return
String[] { name1, name2, name3, etc }

Is this possible with built-in SQL/psql functions?
If not, how hard would it be to write a function that does this? (given that I have coding experience but none writing pgsql functions)

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