Store select query's output in one array in postgres

Question

My code is:

SELECT column_name
FROM information.SCHEMA.columns
WHERE table_name = \'aean\'

It returns column names of table aean

Answer 1

There are two ways. One is to aggregate:

SELECT array_agg(column_name::TEXT)
FROM information.schema.columns
WHERE table_name = 'aean'

The other is to use an array constructor:

SELECT ARRAY(
SELECT column_name 
FROM information.schema.columns 
WHERE table_name = 'aean')

I'm presuming this is for plpgsql. In that case you can assign it like this:

colnames := ARRAY(
SELECT column_name
FROM information.schema.columns
WHERE table_name='aean'
);

Answer 2

I had exactly the same problem. Just one more working modification of the solution given by Denis (the type must be specified):

SELECT ARRAY(
SELECT column_name::text
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name='aean'
)