From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: OT: array_accum equivalent in Oracle
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:43:39 +0200
Message-ID: <200710121743.39228.andreak@officenet.no> (raw)
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On Friday 12 October 2007 17:02:23 Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 10/12/07, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> wrote:
> > Anybody knows if Oracle has an equivalent of PG's array_accum or
> > ARRAY(subselect) construct?
>
> Something like this:
>
> CREATE TYPE varchar2_table_t AS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(32767);
> SELECT job, CAST(MULTISET(SELECT ename FROM emp WHERE job = e.job) AS
> varchar2_table_t) FROM emp e GROUP BY job;
Amazing! Works like a charm.
I was envisioning some pretty ugly PL/SQL functions to accomplish this.
Thanks!
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