Looping inside a Postgres UPDATE query

问题

(Postgres 10.10) I have the following fields in my_table:

loval INTEGER 
hival INTEGER 
valcount INTEGER 
values INTEGER[]

I need to set values to an array containing valcount random integers each between loval and hival inclusive. So for:

loval: 3 
hival: 22 
valcount: 6

I'm looking to set values to something like:

{3, 6, 6, 13, 17, 22}

I know how to do this with an inefficient "loop through the cursor" solution, but I'm wondering if Postgres has a way to do a looping computation inline.

Note: I looked at generate_series, but I don't think it produces what I need.

回答1:

generate_series() is indeed the solution:

update my_table
  set "values" = array(select (random() * (hival - loval) + loval)::int 
                       from generate_series(1, valcount));

Online example

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Note that values is a reserved keyword, it's not a good idea to use that as a column name.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59431856/looping-inside-a-postgres-update-query