Re: generic way to retrieve array as rowset

In article <87ek3o6gsv(dot)fsf(at)stark(dot)xeocode(dot)com>, gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu says...
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> SunWuKung <Balazs(dot)Klein(at)axelero(dot)hu> writes:
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> > Thank you both, I will make good use of this.
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> > On a side note: isn't it a pity this has to be so difficult?
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> It doesn't have to be.
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> Look in the contrib directory, build the intagg module (or if you use debian
> install the postgresql-contrib package) and then:
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> SELECT id, int_array_enum(val) FROM t7
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Unfortunately I now work on a popular, but cripled proprietary system
with no C compiler (WinXP), so I don't think I can make use of that yet
- I will change though (one of those new year wows).

Thanks.
B.