Re: Postgres Array Traversing Problem - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Dawid Kuroczko
Subject Re: Postgres Array Traversing Problem
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Msg-id 758d5e7f0710050155j49730d3cr8d007a50b689c825@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Postgres Array Traversing Problem  (yogesh <yogesh.arora.daffodil@gmail.com>)
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On 10/4/07, yogesh <yogesh.arora.daffodil@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
>          I have a Problem in Accessing Arrays in the Postgres.
>          The Description of my problem is given
> here:-----------------------
>  I have two array of numeric types. One That stores the IDs and Other
> Store their values at respective position.
>   One Id could be in more than one Row's Array. Now i have to search
> the ID if it is present in the Array or not.

Any specific reason why you use arrays instead of normalizing your
schema?

>   If present then at what position and to retrieve the corresponding
> ID and its Value....present in the other table......
> Is there any solution of it................If any Body knows please
> reply me as soon as possible.......

You should use pgsql-sql@postgresql.org list for this type
of questions.

The safest route would be to use PL/pgSQL procedure which
iterates the array elements.  It should be quite simple.
Play with this.

  Regards,
    Dawid

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