in postgres select, return a column subquery as an

Question

(have done this before, but memory fades, as does goggle)

wish to get select from users with the tag.tag_ids for each user returned as an array.

select usr_id,
       name,
       (select t.tag_id from tags t where t.usr_id = u.usr_id) as tag_arr
from   users u;

with the idea embedded query tag_arr would be an array

Answer 1

Use the aggregate function:

select
    usr_id, 
    name, 
    array_agg(tag_id) as tag_arr
from users
join tags using(usr_id)
group by usr_id, name

or an array constructor from the results of a subquery:

select
    u.usr_id, 
    name, 
    array(select tag_id from tags t where t.usr_id = u.usr_id) as tag_arr
from users u

The second option is simple and fast while the first one is more general, e.g. in cases when you need to use more than one aggregates.