On 15/03/2014 14:01, Thom Brown wrote: > On 15 March 2014 12:51, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Here's an odd one (to me anyway) which I ran into today.... if I have a >> multidimensional array, why does the following return NULL? >> >> select (array[['abc','def'], ['ghi','jkl']])[1] >> >> I would have expected it to return {abc, def}. This, however, returns >> 'abc' as expected: >> >> select (array[['abc','def'], ['ghi','jkl']])[1][1] > > Hmm... I'm not sure. You can get to it with slices for some reason: > > # select (array[['abc','def'], ['ghi','jkl']])[0:1]; > array > ------------- > {{abc,def}} > (1 row) True... though that gives you a 2D array, whereas I was hoping for a 1D array from (array[...])[1]. I should have mentioned my version, by the way: select version(); PostgreSQL 9.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general