In response to Igor Katson : > I think I need a built-in function to make a column from an array, like > in the backwards operation SELECT ARRAY(column) By David Fetter: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION unnest(ANYARRAY) RETURNS SETOF ANYELEMENT LANGUAGE SQL AS $$SELECT $1[i] FROM generate_series(array_lower($1,1),array_upper($1,1)) i;$$; HTH, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general