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Semi-structured and structured data functions (Map)

MAP_CAT

Returns the concatenatation of two MAPs.

Syntax

MAP_CAT( <map1> , <map2> )
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Arguments

map1

The source MAP.

map2

The MAP to be appended to map1.

Returns

The return type of this function is the type of map1. map2 is coerced into the map1 type following the coercion rules. For information about coercion rules, see Implicit casting a value (coercion).

Usage notes

  • If both map1 and map2 have a value with the same key, then the output map contains the value from map2.

  • If either argument is NULL, the function returns NULL without reporting any error.

Examples

Create two MAPs and concatenate them:

SELECT MAP_CAT(
  {'map1key1':'map1value1','map1key2':'map1value2'}::MAP(VARCHAR,VARCHAR),
  {'map2key1':'map2value1','map2key2':'map2value2'}::MAP(VARCHAR,VARCHAR))
  AS concatenated_maps;
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+-----------------------------+
| CONCATENATED_MAPS           |
|-----------------------------|
| {                           |
|   "map1key1": "map1value1", |
|   "map1key2": "map1value2", |
|   "map2key1": "map2value1", |
|   "map2key2": "map2value2"  |
| }                           |
+-----------------------------+
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