Re: [REPOST] plpgsql : looping over multidimensional array : getting NULL for subdimension - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: [REPOST] plpgsql : looping over multidimensional array : getting NULL for subdimension
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In response to Re: [REPOST] plpgsql : looping over multidimensional array : getting NULL for subdimension  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Samba <saasira@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you  Merlin for your answer,
>>
>>        I tried that and is working as you said.
>>        But when I do
>>                    other_array=some_array[1:2];
>>        I'm getting the entire
>> '{{samba,sarath,sreenivas},{samba,mukhesh,pavan}}';
>>
>>        not just the second subarray, i.e. '{{samba,mukhesh,pavan}}'.
>>
>>        Is there any way I can get only the corresponding slice of the array?
>
> sure...some_array[2:2], etc

by the way, see:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-04/msg01041.php (and
responses) for a more in depth treatment of the issue.

merlin

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