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Aman Sharma
Aman Sharma

Reputation: 173

ERROR: array must not contain nulls PostgreSQL

My Query is

SELECT
    id,
    ARRAY_AGG(session_os)::integer[]
FROM
    t
GROUP BY id
HAVING ARRAY_AGG(session_os)::integer[] && ARRAY[1,NULL]

It's giving ERROR: array must not contain nulls

Actually I want to get rows like

  id   | Session_OS
-------|-------------
 641   | {1, 2}
 642   | {NULL, 2}
 643   | {NULL}

Kindly check the sample data here

https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=postgres_13&fiddle=7793fa763a360bf7334787e4249d6107

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1223

Answers (2)

jjanes
jjanes

Reputation: 44383

The extension intarray installs its own && operator for int[], and this doesn't allow NULLs and it takes precedence over the built-in && operator.

If you are not using intarray, you can just uninstall it (except for in dbfiddle, where you can't). If you are using it occasionally, I think it is best to install it in its own schema which is not in your search path. Then you need to schema qualify its operators when you do need them.

Alternatively, you can leave intarray in place and schema qualify the normal built-in operators when you need those ones specifically, as shown here.

Upvotes: 0

S-Man
S-Man

Reputation: 23766

The && operator does not support NULL values. So, you need another approach. For example you could join the data to the table first. This gives you the ids which are linked to your required data. At the second step you are able to arregate all values using these ids.

step-by-step demo:db<>fiddle

SELECT
    id,
    ARRAY_AGG(session_os)                        -- 4                         
FROM t
WHERE id IN (                                    -- 3
    SELECT 
        id
    FROM
        t
    JOIN (
        SELECT unnest(ARRAY[1, null]) as a       -- 1
    )s ON s.a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM t.session_os  -- 2
)
GROUP BY id
  1. Create a table or query result which contains your relevant data, incl. the NULL value.
  2. You can join the data, incl. the NULL value, using the operator IS NOT DISTINCT FROM, which considers the NULL.
  3. Now you have fetched the relevant id values which can be used in the WHERE filter
  4. Finally your can do your aggregation

Upvotes: 1

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