Re: Function to ADD a value into each column of real[]

[Jim Nasby <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:38 PM, orehon wrote:
> Hello,
>  if I have this table:
>  CREATE TABLE teste (
> id     integer,
> picos   real[],
> );
>
> and insert this values:
> INSERT INTO teste VALUES(1, '{{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},
> {1,2,3}}');
> INSERT INTO teste VALUES(2, '{{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},
> {1,2,3},{1,2,3}}');
> INSERT INTO teste VALUES(3, '{{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3},
> {1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3}}');
> INSERT INTO teste VALUES(4, '{{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{1,2,3}}');
>
> I need to write a function to return all the record of this table and
> add a 0 in the begin of each array.
> Ex.:
>
> 1, {{0,1,2,3},{0,1,2,3},{0,1,2,3},{0,1,2,3},{0,1,2,3}}
> .............

You'll need something like...
FOR i IN array_lower(array, 1) .. array_upper(array, 1)
	array[i] := 0 || array[i];
END

You might need some special logic to handle either the second pass  
through the loop if this ends up giving you a single-dimension array.
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