Sibtay Abbas wrote:
> hello everyone
>
> i am having problem with multidimensional arrays in plpgsql following
> is the source code of the function which i am trying to run


> DECLARE
> x INTEGER[10][10];

> x[3][1] := '20'; ------i have even tried x[3][1] = 20

> As you might have observed here, the actual problem is
> how to do assignment to multidimensional array locations using the
> subscript operater.

Actually, the problem is that the array "x" has been initialised to
NULL. Therefore, you can't set individual values. Try a line like:
x := '{}';

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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thank you very much for your reply
I did as you specified and it worked fine
thankz


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:29:53 +0000, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
> Sibtay Abbas wrote:
> > hello everyone
> >
> > i am having problem with multidimensional arrays in plpgsql following
> > is the source code of the function which i am trying to run
>
>
> > DECLARE
> > x INTEGER[10][10];
>
> > x[3][1] := '20'; ------i have even tried x[3][1] = 20
>
> > As you might have observed here, the actual problem is
> > how to do assignment to multidimensional array locations using the
> > subscript operater.
>
> Actually, the problem is that the array "x" has been initialised to
> NULL. Therefore, you can't set individual values. Try a line like:
> x := '{}';
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>

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