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* How to loop though an array plpgsql?
@ 2005-07-29 23:39 Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>
  2005-07-30 13:15 ` Re: How to loop though an array plpgsql? Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
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From: Matthew Schumacher @ 2005-07-29 23:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

I need to loop though an input array, but can't figure out how to do it,
the docs aren't really clear on this.

Something like this:

CREATE FUNCTION update (_id INTEGER[])
RETURNS VOID AS
$$
BEGIN

  FOR i IN SELECT _id LOOP
    INSERT INTO table VALUES (_id[i]);
  END LOOP;

END;
$$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Anyone know the correct loop syntax?

schu



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* Re: How to loop though an array plpgsql?
  2005-07-29 23:39 How to loop though an array plpgsql? Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>
@ 2005-07-30 13:15 ` Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
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From: Michael Fuhr @ 2005-07-30 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:39:12PM -0800, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> I need to loop though an input array, but can't figure out how to do it,
> the docs aren't really clear on this.

This comes up from time to time -- search the archives to see past
discussion.  Suggestions usually involve array_lower() and array_upper().

http://archives.postgresql.org/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-array.html

If you're using integers then see also the int_array_enum() function
in the contrib/intagg module.

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/



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