On Friday 21. December 2007, Philippe Lang wrote: >(SELECT CONCAT(name, ', ') FROM employees AS e where e.appointment_id > = appointments.id) AS employees >FROM appointments >------------------------------ > >... where CONCAT suggest we want to concatenate the variable inside, >with the separator ', ' inbetween.
I've got a similar problem. My persons table has a number of fields for different name parts: given, patronym, toponym, surname, occupation, epithet. I've written a Plpgsql function that concatenates the full name, but it's big and ugly. I'd like something more elegant, like the Python or PHP join() function. I tried Andreas' suggestion like this: pgslekt=> select array_to_string(array(select given, patronym, toponym from persons where person_id=57), ' '); ERROR: subquery must return only one column Is there any way to accomplish this from Plpgsql? -- Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 http://solumslekt.org/ | Cruising with Gentoo/KDE My Jazz Jukebox: http://www.last.fm/user/leifbk/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
