Re: Prepared statements with a variable number of parameters - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 10/10/2009 18:52, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> 2009/10/10 Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie>:

>> My question is, what do people normally do when there's a variable
>> number of parameters? - for example:
>>
>>  select ..... where item_id in ( ... );
>>
>
> You can use arrays here.
>
> select ... where item_id = ANY(string_to_array($1, ','))

Nice one! Thanks Pavel.

My item_id values are integers, so I added ::integer[] to the above and
all works nicely:

    ...where item_id = any(string_to_array($1, ',')::integer[])

Thanks again,

Ray.


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