From: Michael Weaver <mweaver@corpusglobe.com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Michael Weaver <mweaver@corpusglobe.com>
Cc: 'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org' <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Cc: 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Passing arrays
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:09:55 +0800
Message-ID: <3B663B41B350D311AEEF00A0C9254563201A72@VISION1> (raw)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com]
> Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 12:58 PM
> To: Michael Weaver
> Cc: 'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Passing arrays
>
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Michael Weaver wrote:
>
> > How do you get an array of elements to be passed to a
> stored proc such that
> > you can use the array in a SELECT statement in the WHERE clause
> > - e.g. WHERE field IN (array) etc...
>
> A straight WHERE field IN (array) doesn't work. That's attempting to
> compare the field directly to the array as a whole (which is
> why you get
> the particular error you do.
I've got around this limitation using strings, but I do find it suprising,
that Postgres handles arrays this way.
Searching an array in an WHERE IN clause would be a useful task. (namely for
passing arrays of values between stored functions)
Ok it could be confusing, but I think a number of other DBs employ it to
good effect.
I'll take a look at the array extension in contrib - it sounds useful.
Thanks.
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