Apply function to every element of an array in a SELECT statement - arrays

Question

I am listing all functions of a PostgreSQL schema and need the human readable types for every argument of the functions. OIDs of the types a represented as an array in proallargtypes. I can unnest the array and apply format_type() to it, which causes the query to split into multiple rows for a single function. To avoid that I have to create an outer SELECT to GROUP the argtypes again because, apperently, one cannot group an unnested array. All columns are dependent on proname but I have to list all columns in GROUP BY clause, which is unnecessary but proname is not a primary key.
Is there a better way to achieve my goal of an output like this:
proname | ... | protypes
-------------------------------------
test | ... | {integer,integer}
I am currently using this query:
SELECT
proname,
prosrc,
pronargs,
proargmodes,
array_agg(proargtypes), -- see here
proallargtypes,
proargnames,
prodefaults,
prorettype,
lanname
FROM (
SELECT
p.proname,
p.prosrc,
p.pronargs,
p.proargmodes,
format_type(unnest(p.proallargtypes), NULL) AS proargtypes, -- and here
p.proallargtypes,
p.proargnames,
pg_get_expr(p.proargdefaults, 0) AS prodefaults,
format_type(p.prorettype, NULL) AS prorettype,
l.lanname
FROM pg_catalog.pg_proc p
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_language l
ON l.oid = p.prolang
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n
ON n.oid = p.pronamespace
WHERE n.nspname = 'public'
) x
GROUP BY proname, prosrc, pronargs, proargmodes, proallargtypes, proargnames, prodefaults, prorettype, lanname

Answer 1

you can use internal "undocumented" function pg_catalog.pg_get_function_arguments(p.oid).
postgres=# SELECT pg_catalog.pg_get_function_arguments('fufu'::regproc);
pg_get_function_arguments
---------------------------
a integer, b integer
(1 row)
Now, there are no build "map" function. So unnest, array_agg is only one possible. You can simplify life with own custom function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION format_types(oid[])
RETURNS text[] AS $$
SELECT ARRAY(SELECT format_type(unnest($1), null))
$$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE;
and result
postgres=# SELECT format_types('{21,22,23}');
format_types
-------------------------------
{smallint,int2vector,integer}
(1 row)
Then your query should to be:
SELECT proname, format_types(proallargtypes)
FROM pg_proc
WHERE pronamespace = 2200 AND proallargtypes;
But result will not be expected probably, because proallargtypes field is not empty only when OUT parameters are used. It is empty usually. You should to look to proargtypes field, but it is a oidvector type - so you should to transform to oid[] first.
postgres=# SELECT proname, format_types(string_to_array(proargtypes::text,' ')::oid[])
FROM pg_proc
WHERE pronamespace = 2200
LIMIT 10;
proname | format_types
------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
quantile_append_double | {internal,"double precision","double precision"}
quantile_append_double_array | {internal,"double precision","double precision[]"}
quantile_double | {internal}
quantile_double_array | {internal}
quantile | {"double precision","double precision"}
quantile | {"double precision","double precision[]"}
quantile_cont_double | {internal}
quantile_cont_double_array | {internal}
quantile_cont | {"double precision","double precision"}
quantile_cont | {"double precision","double precision[]"}
(10 rows)