Re: plpgsql arrays

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> select array(SELECT location FROM location, gene WHERE
> location.subjectid = gene.id ORDER BY objectid, intermine_start,
> intermine_end)) into genes;

Yeah, that works nicely.

> this will make array of location records.  when you access the records
> to do the merge, make sure to use () noation:
>
> if (genes[x]).field > something then

How is that different to genes[x].field?

Matthew

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