Re: searching array - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matthew Peter
Subject Re: searching array
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Msg-id 20051017185450.70191.qmail@web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: searching array  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Yes. I did read it wrong. I wanted to find all records
that contained x where x >= 10000

I am using ANY in my query on my test box I copied the
ALL from example query in the docs, which still isn't
working for me.

--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Matthew Peter <survivedsushi@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Shouldn't >= also return Carols records since she
> > contains records GREATER THAN 10000?
>
> You seem to be reading the construct backwards.
>
>     x >= ALL (array)
>
> is true if x >= every member of the array.  This is
> clearly false
> for x = 10000 and array = {20000, 25000, 25000,
> 25000} ... in fact,
> x isn't >= any of those members.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>




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