On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, idc danny <idcdanny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I got 2 complementary functions, which will do opposite things. > 1 - CombineStrings(stringarray character varying[]) RETURNS character > varying > This one will take as parameter an array of strings and will return a string > with some formatted information inside > 2- SplitString2Array(stringtosplit character varying) RETURNS character > varying[] > This one will take as parameter a formatted string and will return an array > of string > > The following is true, both works just fine : > select SplitString2Array(CombineStrings(ARRAY['abba', 'queen'])) > will return {'abba', 'queen'} > > Now, if I want do do the following: > select CombineStrings(ARRAY[SplitString2Array("SomeTextColumn"), 'New string > to add']) from "SomeTable" > i get the following error: > array value must start with "{" or dimension information > > What am I doing wrong, I am feeling I still don't get the array > fundamentals. My goal is to add to inside formatted information in the > column "SomeTextColumn" my new string 'New string to add' in the same manner > if I would been used the following: > Insert into "SomeTable"("SomeTextColumn") values > (CombineString(ARRAY['abba', 'queen', 'New string to add'])) It sounds like one or both of your functions have a bug in them, but without knowing what they're supposed to do or seeing the source code, it's pretty hard to guess what it might be. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance