PostgreSQL: sort an array of elements using some sorting condition

问题

Suppose you need to sort an array of numranges by, say, descending left boundary. Is the following approach the simplest: unnest the array into a table, sort the table, array_agg it back into an array. How would that look in code? Here is my non-working attempt:

DO $$
DECLARE
    x numrange[] := '{"[0, 3]", "[0, 1]", "[3, 5]", "[3, 8]"}';
BEGIN

    x := (
          WITH x AS (
              SELECT xrow FROM unnest(x) AS xrow
          )
          SELECT array_agg(xrow) FROM x ORDER BY lower(xrow) DESC
    );
    RAISE NOTICE '%', x;
END;
$$;

回答1:

You must move ORDER BY into aggregate function, to afect aggragate order see manual:

DO $$
DECLARE
    x numrange[] := '{"[0, 3]", "[0, 1]", "[3, 5]", "[3, 8]"}';
BEGIN

    x := (WITH x AS (
            SELECT xrow FROM unnest(x) AS xrow
        )
        SELECT array_agg(xrow  ORDER BY lower(xrow) DESC) FROM x

    );
    RAISE NOTICE '%', x;
END;
$$;

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33954733/postgresql-sort-an-array-of-elements-using-some-sorting-condition