Re: Polymorphic arguments and composite types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Polymorphic arguments and composite types
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Msg-id 1191602794.18360.8.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com
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In response to Re: Polymorphic arguments and composite types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 12:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> > You could do something like:
> > SELECT * FROM c AS c1, c AS c2 WHERE ARRAY[c1.col1] <@ ANY(SELECT c2.col2);
> 
> Good point --- actually he could convert it back to the original
> subselect style, as long as he's using the correct operator:
> 
> SELECT * FROM c WHERE ARRAY[col1] <@ ANY(SELECT col2 FROM c);

You're right, that's a better example.

> 
> The one-element-array trick seems a bit awkward though.  I wonder
> why we don't have an "anyelement <@ anyarray" kind of operator...
> 

I thought we did -- until I decided to test my example in psql before
hitting "send". It certainly makes sense to me that we should have it.

Regards,Jeff Davis



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