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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Joseph S <jks@selectacast.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ERROR: function expression in FROM may not refer to other relations of same query level
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:58:51 -0400
Message-ID: <16881.1247104731@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h33got$17dc$1@news.hub.org>
References: <h33got$17dc$1@news.hub.org>

Joseph S <jks@selectacast.net> writes:
> Supposed I have this table:

> create temp table tempa (ids int[]);
> insert into tempa SELECT ARRAY[1 , 2, 3];

> Now how do I get output from that?

Uh, you didn't actually say what output you're looking for, but
I'm going to guess it's this:

regression=# select unnest(ids) from tempa;
 unnest 
--------
      1
      2
      3
(3 rows)

Pre-8.4, you need a version of unnest() that's coded in C or SQL;
plpgsql won't do.

			regards, tom lane



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