On Mit, 2006-06-21 at 12:34 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:23:44PM +0200, simon wrote: > > or in other words, i just would like to know how to rewrite > > > > SET kategorie = array_to_string ((SELECT ARRAY (SELECT > > kategorie_bezeichnung > > > > so it works in psql7.3 as well. > > The aggregate stuff should work. something like: > > SET kategorie = (SELECT comma_aggregate(kategorie_bezeichnung) FROM ...) > > should do the trick. i just found CREATE FUNCTION comma_aggregate(text,text) RETURNS text AS ' SELECT CASE WHEN $1 <> '''' THEN $1 || '', '' || $2 ELSE $2 END; ' LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT; CREATE AGGREGATE comma (basetype=text, sfunc=comma_aggregate, stype=text, initcond='' ); and this didn't work with the above mentioned querry. i actually never found any docu about how tor write custom function which takes a whole result set no matter how many rows. thanks anyway simon > > Have a nice day, -- Simon Litwan simon.litwan@xxxxxxxxx Wyona Inc. - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://lenya.apache.org