Re: [GENERAL] integer[] Update Questions

Wow Oleg, that's great to hear! I am compiling 7.3 from CVS right now.
If you do have a patch for 7.2 could you send that - I would like to use
these functions on some production machines running 7.2.1 currently.

Thanks for the prompt response and keep up the great work!

Ryan Mahoney

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 12:40, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Well, CVS version (7.3) of contrib/intarray has:
> FUNCTIONS:
>
> int icount(int[]) - the number of elements in intarray
> int[] sort(int[], 'asc' | 'desc') - sort intarray
> int[] sort(int[]) - sort in ascending order
> int[] sort_asc(int[]),sort_desc(int[]) - shortcuts for sort
> int[] uniq(int[]) - returns unique elements
> int idx(int[], int item) - returns index of first intarray matching element to item, or
> '0' if matching failed.
> int[] subarray(int[],int START [, int LEN]) - returns part of intarray starting from
> element number START (from 1) and length LEN.
>
> OPERATIONS:
>
>
> int[] && int[] - overlap - returns TRUE if arrays has at least one common elements.
> int[] @ int[] - contains - returns TRUE if left array contains right array
> int[] ~ int[] - contained - returns TRUE if left array is contained in right array
> # int[] - return the number of elements in array
> int[] + int - push element to array ( add to end of array)
> int[] + int[] - merge of arrays (right array added to the end of left one)
> int[] - int - remove entries matched by right argument from array
> int[] - int[] - remove left array from right
> int[] | int - returns intarray - union of arguments
> int[] | int[] - returns intarray as a union of two arrays
> int[] & int[] - returns intersection of arrays
>
>
> I don't remember if I have a patch for 7.2
>
> Oleg
> On 23 Aug 2002, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
>
> > Greeting Hackers! Had some questions about integer array type...
> >
> > If I have a integer[] field in a table, which already has the values
> > {1,2,3,6,17} and I additionally want to add the value '45' to this
> > array, is there any easier way than SELECTing the current values and
> > then updating the entire record?
> >
> > I see that I could do:
> > UPDATE table SET array_field[6] = 45 WHERE ...
> >
> > But how do I know that 6 is the correct index without first SELECTing
> > all the data?
> >
> > Is there an array push/pop function? Is there a method of counting the
> > number of integers in an array?
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can provide - indexable integer arrays are an
> > incredible feature, thanks for the hard work!
> >
> > Ryan Mahoney
> >
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> Regards,
> Oleg
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