From: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:38:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] implement trim_array

---
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml               | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |  4 ++++
 src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 1ab31a9056..c3e157622f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -17916,6 +17916,25 @@ SELECT NULLIF(value, '(none)') ...
        </para></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+        <indexterm>
+         <primary>trim_array</primary>
+        </indexterm>
+        <function>trim_array</function> ( <parameter>array</parameter> <type>anyarray</type>, <parameter>n</parameter> <type>integer</type> )
+        <returnvalue>anyarray</returnvalue>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        Trims an array to the elements 1 through <parameter>n</parameter>.  Usually these are
+        the first <parameter>n</parameter> elements of the array, but may not be if the lower
+        bound is different from 1.
+       </para>
+       <para>
+        <literal>select trim_array(ARRAY[1,2,3,4,5,6], 3)</literal>
+        <returnvalue>{1,2,3}</returnvalue>
+       </para></entry>
+      </row>
+
       <row>
        <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
         <indexterm>
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index 1487710d59..0aae4daf3b 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -1674,6 +1674,10 @@
   proname => 'arraycontjoinsel', provolatile => 's', prorettype => 'float8',
   proargtypes => 'internal oid internal int2 internal',
   prosrc => 'arraycontjoinsel' },
+{ oid => '8819', descr => 'trim an array down to n elements',
+  proname => 'trim_array', prolang => 'sql', provolatile => 'i',
+  prorettype => 'anyarray', proargtypes => 'anyarray int4',
+  prosrc => 'select ($1)[1:$2]' },
 
 { oid => '764', descr => 'large object import',
   proname => 'lo_import', provolatile => 'v', proparallel => 'u',
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out b/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
index 8bc7721e7d..a79ad36cb0 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
@@ -2399,3 +2399,22 @@ SELECT width_bucket(5, ARRAY[3, 4, NULL]);
 ERROR:  thresholds array must not contain NULLs
 SELECT width_bucket(5, ARRAY[ARRAY[1, 2], ARRAY[3, 4]]);
 ERROR:  thresholds must be one-dimensional array
+-- trim_array
+CREATE TABLE trim_array_test (arr integer[]);
+INSERT INTO trim_array_test
+VALUES ('{1,2,3,4,5,6}'),
+       ('[-15:-10]={1,2,3,4,5,6}'),
+       ('[10:15]={1,2,3,4,5,6}'),
+       ('{{1,10},{2,20},{3,30},{4,40},{5,50},{6,60}}');
+SELECT arr, trim_array(arr, 3)
+FROM trim_array_test
+ORDER BY arr;
+                     arr                     |       trim_array       
+---------------------------------------------+------------------------
+ [-15:-10]={1,2,3,4,5,6}                     | {}
+ {1,2,3,4,5,6}                               | {1,2,3}
+ [10:15]={1,2,3,4,5,6}                       | {}
+ {{1,10},{2,20},{3,30},{4,40},{5,50},{6,60}} | {{1,10},{2,20},{3,30}}
+(4 rows)
+
+DROP TABLE trim_array_test;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
index c40619a8d5..6d34cc468e 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
@@ -722,3 +722,19 @@ SELECT width_bucket(5, '{}');
 SELECT width_bucket('5'::text, ARRAY[3, 4]::integer[]);
 SELECT width_bucket(5, ARRAY[3, 4, NULL]);
 SELECT width_bucket(5, ARRAY[ARRAY[1, 2], ARRAY[3, 4]]);
+
+
+-- trim_array
+
+CREATE TABLE trim_array_test (arr integer[]);
+INSERT INTO trim_array_test
+VALUES ('{1,2,3,4,5,6}'),
+       ('[-15:-10]={1,2,3,4,5,6}'),
+       ('[10:15]={1,2,3,4,5,6}'),
+       ('{{1,10},{2,20},{3,30},{4,40},{5,50},{6,60}}');
+
+SELECT arr, trim_array(arr, 3)
+FROM trim_array_test
+ORDER BY arr;
+
+DROP TABLE trim_array_test;
-- 
2.25.1


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