patch: to_string, to_array functions

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-05-05T18:42:01Z
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Hello

attached patch contains to_string and to_array functions. These
functions are equivalent of array_to_string and string_to_array
function with maybe more correct NULL handling.

postgres=# select to_array('1,2,3,4,,6',',');
     to_array
------------------
 {1,2,3,4,NULL,6}
(1 row)

postgres=# select to_array('1,2,3,4,,6',',','***');
    to_array
----------------
 {1,2,3,4,"",6}
(1 row)

postgres=# select to_string(array[1,2,3,4,NULL,6],',');
 to_string
------------
 1,2,3,4,,6
(1 row)

postgres=# select to_string(array[1,2,3,4,NULL,6],',','***');
   to_string
---------------
 1,2,3,4,***,6
(1 row)

Regards
Pavel Stehule