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?
otherwise I need to call this function multiple times from my java client, once per each sub-array which I think will more expensive
that doing it in just one stored procedure call.
Regards,
Samba
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Merlin Moncure
<mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Samba <
saasira@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to loop over a multidimensional array and find if any of the
> elements in a sub-dimensional array are matching some known criteria but
> facing issue with NULL for the sub arrays.
>
> I have a data structure that looks like:
>
> some_array VARCHAR[][] :=
> '{{samba,sarath,sreenivas},{samba,mukhesh,pavan}}';
>
> I'm trying to assign the individual sub arrays to other array elements like:
>
> other-array VARCHAR[];
>
> other_array=some_array[1];
>
> and I'm expecting to get '{samba,sarath,sreenivas}' for index 1 and
> {samba,mukhesh,pavan} for index 2;
> however, I'm getting NULL.
>
> Can some one explain the way I can assign subarrays to other array elements
> plpgsql?
array which is almost as good:
other_array=some_array[1:1];
note this will give {{samba,sarath,sreenivas}}, not {samba,sarath,sreenivas}
merlin
