Re: Array to rowset function

John Hansen posted a C implementaion of the UNNEST function that does
this. It is in the archives here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00158.php and
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-11/msg00327.php .
I've been using it for the last few months and it's been working great
for me.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:03:56 +0000, laurie(dot)burrow(at)powerconv(dot)alstom(dot)com
<laurie(dot)burrow(at)powerconv(dot)alstom(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a function to convert a single dimension array to a row set
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION arraytotable(anyarray)
> RETURNS SETOF anyelement AS
> '
> DECLARE
>
> theData ALIAS FOR $1;
> count integer;
> start integer;
>
> BEGIN
> start :=array_lower(theData,1);
> count :=array_upper(theData,1);
> IF start is not null THEN
> FOR i IN start..count LOOP
> RETURN NEXT theData[i];
> END LOOP;
> END IF;
>
> RETURN;
> END
> '
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>
> Is there a more efficient way I can do this and are there any user defined
> C functions available for this sort of array manipulation?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Laurie
>
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