Re: proposal: row_to_array function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 01/16/2015 12:22 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

        There two possible transformations:

        row_to_array --> [[key1, value1],[key2, value2], ...]
        row_to_row_array --> [(key1, value1), (key2, value2), ... ]


    If we're going to go that route, I think it makes more sense to
    create an actual key/value type (ie:
    http://pgxn.org/dist/pair/doc/pair.html) and return an array of that.


ok

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I think we'd possibly be better off with simply returning a flat array, [key1, value1, ...]

Thats's what the hstore(text[]) and json_object(text[]) functions accept, along with the 2D variant, if we want a precedent.

cheers

andrew