Le 2014-06-17 à 14:22, Condor <condor@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > I do select array_agg(ids) from x; > in ids I have int and result is : > > array_agg > ------------- > {3843,2,3543,33} > > I want to access one element or first one direct in sql query like: > > select array_agg(ids)[1] from x; > > and to receive int value 2 > > Any hints how I can do it ? This works for me in 9.1: psql (9.1.13) Type "help" for help. svanalytics=> select (array_agg(x))[1] from (values(3843),(2),(3543),(33)) t1(x) ; array_agg ----------- 3843 Note the use of the extra parens around the array_agg call. This is probably a parser issue more than anything else. > And also for performance did that is good I to do it in SQL or I should do it in language that I use ? The result in query will return about 2, 3 million rows. Do you mean you will have an array of 2, 3 million elements, or 2, 3 million rows with a couple dozen elements each? I’m not sure which will be easier / faster. I routinely work with million element result sets (rows) and have no issues. Hope that helps! François