Re: aggregate generic ANYARRAY

Tom Hebbron wrote:
> When used, it outputs an array of the inputs, in order.
[...snip...]
> CREATE AGGREGATE aggarray (BASETYPE = ANYELEMENT, SFUNC = aggregate_array,
> STYPE = ANYARRAY);

There is really no need for the aggregate_array() function. See the
example in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xaggr.html

So it would look like this:
CREATE AGGREGATE aggarray (basetype = anyelement, sfunc = array_append,
stype = anyarray, initcond = '{}' );

> -- *********************************************
> --simple demonstration of aggarray
> -- *********************************************
regression=# SELECT n.nspname, aggarray(relname) FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c INNER JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON
(c.relnamespace = n.oid) WHERE c.relkind = 'r' GROUP BY
c.relnamespace,n.nspname;
nspname |

aggarray

--------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
information_schema |
{sql_features,sql_implementation_info,sql_languages,sql_packages,sql_sizing,sql_sizing_profiles}
MySchema | {Foo}
pg_catalog |
{pg_shadow,pg_constraint,pg_database,pg_description,pg_group,pg_proc,pg_rewrite,pg_statistic,pg_type,pg_attribute,pg_class,pg_inherits,pg_index,pg_operator,pg_opclass,pg_am,pg_amop,pg_amproc,pg_language,pg_largeobject,pg_aggregate,pg_trigger,pg_listener,pg_cast,pg_namespace,pg_conversion,pg_depend,pg_attrdef}
public | {foo,mytable,fw_chain}
(4 rows)

Time: 2.518 ms

HTH,

Joe