On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:59 PM, J. Greg Davidson <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi fellow PostgreSQL hackers! > > I tried to write an SQL glue function to turn an array > of alternating key/value pairs into an array of arrays > and got the message > > ERROR: 42704: could not find array type for data type text[] I do it like this: create type pair_t as (key text, value text); > -- BEGIN CODE > > -- Here's a simplified example: > > CREATE OR REPLACE > FUNCTION text__(variadic text[]) RETURNS text[][] AS $$ > SELECT ARRAY( > SELECT ARRAY[ $1[i], $1[i+1] ] > FROM generate_series(1, array_upper($1,1), 2) i > ) > $$ LANGUAGE sql; create or replace function pairs(variadic text[]) returns pair_t[] as $$ select array(select ($1[i], $1[i+1])::pair_t FROM generate_series(1, array_upper($1,1), 2) i) $$ language sql immutable; merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general