I just ran into an interesting thing with unnest and empty arrays.
create table x (
a int,
b int[]
);
insert into x(a,b) values (1, '{}');
insert into x(a,b) values (1, '{}');
insert into x(a,b) values (1, '{}');
select a, b from x;
select a, unnest(b) from x;
insert into x(a,b) values (2, '{5,6}');
select a, unnest(b) from x;
drop table x;
gives me:
CREATE TABLE
INSERT 0 1
INSERT 0 1
INSERT 0 1
a | b
---+----
1 | {}
1 | {}
1 | {}
(3 rows)
a | unnest
---+--------
(0 rows)
INSERT 0 1
a | unnest
---+--------
2 | 5
2 | 6
(2 rows)
DROP TABLE
I can understand the likely reasoning behind the behavior but perhaps a note in the documentation about it might be of
usefor others that may get bit by this functionality. (especially given the structure of the query, had I been doing
select* from unnest(arr) that would be more intuitive, but given the query structure of select with no where the
resultscan be surprising.)
thanks
--
Jeff Trout <jeff@jefftrout.com>
