On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:41:12PM -0400, V S P wrote: > but running into a problem as I cannot typecast correctly > > select V[i][j] > FROM > (select '{{A,B,C},{D,E,F}}') as V > CROSS JOIN generate_series(1, 3) i > CROSS JOIN generate_series(1,2) j > > Does not work, because V is not an array (it is a string) > and I do not know where to put the typecast > ::text[][] Not sure what you tried, but the following does the "right" thing for me: SELECT ('{{A,B,C},{D,E,F}}'::text[])[1][1]; The brackets are needed so that PG doesn't get confused between the type declaration and the array indexing. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general