David Johnston <pol...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Is here less clumsy way to set  array[position] to the new_value (not update 
>> but just change an element inside an array) than:
>> 
>> SELECT
>> _array[1:pos-1]
>> ||newval
>> ||_array[_pos+1:array_length(_array, 1)]

> I do not know if there is a cleaner way but regardless you should code
> your logic as a function.

Inside a plpgsql function, you could just do

        array[pos] := newval;

so perhaps it'd be worth creating a helper function that's a wrapper
around that.

                        regards, tom lane

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