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ARRAY_GET

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The ARRAY_GET function allows for accessing array elements by 1-based ordinal.

SELECT (ARRAY[1, 2])[1]
create.select(arrayGet(array(1, 2), 1)).fetch();

The result would look like this:

+-----------+
| array_get |
+-----------+
|         1 |
+-----------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

arrayGet(array(1, 2), 1)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, H2, Postgres, YugabyteDB

(ARRAY[1, 2])[1]

ClickHouse

(ARRAY(1, 2))[1]

HSQLDB

CASE
  WHEN cardinality(ARRAY[1, 2]) >= 1 THEN (ARRAY[1, 2])[1]
END

Trino

element_at(
  ARRAY[1, 2],
  1
)

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, DB2, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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