On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:06:12AM -0500, george young wrote: > create table new_tab(name text, id int, permits text[]); > > -- I insert one row per name: > insert into new_tab select distinct name,id,cast('{}' as text[]) from old_tab; > > Now I want to fold all the 'permits' values into the new permits arrays.
In PostgreSQL 7.4 and later you can build an array from a select, so I think the following update should work (it did for me when I tested it): UPDATE new_tab SET permits = array( SELECT permits FROM old_tab WHERE old_tab.name = new_tab.name AND old_tab.id = new_tab.id ); -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings