eliminate duplicate array values in postgres

Question

I have an array of type bigint, how can I remove the duplicate values in that array?

Ex: array[1234, 5343, 6353, 1234, 1234]

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Answer 1

For people like me who still have to deal with postgres 8.2, this recursive function can eliminate duplicates without altering the sorting of the array

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_array_uniq(bigint[])
  RETURNS bigint[] AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
    n integer;
BEGIN

    -- number of elements in the array
    n = replace(split_part(array_dims($1),':',2),']','')::int;

    IF n > 1 THEN
        -- test if the last item belongs to the rest of the array
        IF ($1)[1:n-1] @> ($1)[n:n] THEN
            -- returns the result of the same function on the rest of the array
            return my_array_uniq($1[1:n-1]);
        ELSE
            -- returns the result of the same function on the rest of the array plus the last element               
            return my_array_uniq($1[1:n-1]) || $1[n:n];
        END IF;
    ELSE
        -- if array has only one item, returns the array
        return $1;
    END IF;
END;
$BODY$
  LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

for exemple :

select my_array_uniq(array[3,3,8,2,6,6,2,3,4,1,1,6,2,2,3,99]);

will give

{3,8,2,6,4,1,99}