From: Sergio Fantinel <sergio.fantinel@lnl.infn.it>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: PL/pgSQL multidimension (matrix) array in function
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:10:37 +0200
Message-ID: <4149C90D.60806@lnl.infn.it> (raw)
I found how to use, inside a PL/pgSQL function, a two-dimensions array (matrix).
There is a limitation: the number of the 'columns' of the matrix is fixed at
declaration time (in DECLARE section) and you need to manually initialize all
the elements in the first 'row' of the matrix.
The number of rows is unlimited and can be sized at runtime.
Here is the code that can help you.
If someone know how to manage an NxN array without limitations, please replay
to this thread.
I'm using PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on RH7.3
Cheers
Sergio
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "testarray" (integer) RETURNS SETOF integer AS'
DECLARE
n alias for $1; -- number of rows is passed as argument
i INTEGER;
j integer;
k INTEGER := 3; -- matrix columns number
b integer[] := array[0,0,0]; -- need it to initialize the matrix!!
a integer[][] := array[[0,0,0]]; -- need it to initialize the matrix!!
begin
for i in 1..n loop -- the i loop can start obviously from 2 (the first
row is already present...) but for our purpose here we use 1
a := array_cat(a,b);
for j in 1..k loop
a[i][j] := i*j;
end loop;
end loop;
for i in 1..n loop
return next null;
return next i; -- need it to format in some way the output :)
return next null;
for j in 1..k loop
return next a[i][j];
end loop;
end loop;
return;
end
'LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
here is the output:
=> select * from testarray(8);
testarray
-----------
1
1
2
3
2
2
4
6
3
3
6
9
4
4
8
12
5
5
10
15
6
6
12
18
7
7
14
21
8
8
16
24
(48 rows)
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