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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: vernonw@gatewaytech.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Can I search for an array in csf?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:13:57 +0000
Message-ID: <200210211013.58430.dev@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VQ2YXVB9XVGDGC2WSNJ074ZPNPNOLA8.3db0136b@kimiko>
References: <VQ2YXVB9XVGDGC2WSNJ074ZPNPNOLA8.3db0136b@kimiko>

On Friday 18 Oct 2002 1:58 pm, Vernon Wu wrote:
> One field of a table stores an array of characters in a string fromat as
> "a,b,c,d". Is anyway to apply a select statement without using stored
> procedure?
>
> Thanks for your input.

Not really,  and I can't think any way of accessing an index on this either. 
Are you sure you wanted the characters stored this way? Even if the overhead 
of a separate table isn't woth it, you might want to look into arrays and the 
intarray stuff in contrib/

-- 
  Richard Huxton



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