>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at  8:48 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: 
> I was studying a solution which foresees the 'case when' construct...
> now I can use it in addition to  array_to_string . In fact my solution
> failed too if <it's raining cats and dogs :-) >, but if there are some more
> values I get them all as well.
 
Is there a timestamp, date, or sequence number that you can use to break
ties?  Without something like that, I don't think you can do what you want
with set-based logic -- you would need to do something procedural without
any guarantee that you'd get the same results in two different runs.
 
-Kevin
 



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