I guess I should mention that im basically searching for a way to
recusively coalesce the title. So I want to search the second table
and
table_one (id,title)
1 | new one
table_two (id,title)
2 | new two
table_three (id,title)
1 | one
2 | two
3 | three
Id like an sql statement that returns...
1 | new one | [table_one,table_three]
2 | new two | [table_two,table_three]
3 | three | [table_three]
On Oct 14, 4:49 pm, Nick <nboutel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to get the results of this snip of a function without
> using a function? All tables include an id and title column.
>
> tables := ARRAY[table_one,table_two,table_three]::VARCHAR;
> CREATE TEMP TABLE final_results (id INTEGER, title VARCHAR, r_types
> VARCHAR[]);
> FOR t IN ARRAY_LOWER(tables,1) .. ARRAY_UPPER(tables,1) LOOP
> FOR r IN EXECUTE 'SELECT id, title FROM ' || tables[t] LOOP
> IF (SELECT TRUE FROM final_results WHERE id = r.id LIMIT 1) THEN
> UPDATE final_results SET r_types =
> array_append(r_types,tables[t]) WHERE id = r.id;
> ELSE
> INSERT INTO final_results (id,title,r_types) VALUES
> (r.id,r.title,ARRAY[tables.t]);
> END LOOP;
> END LOOP;