Re: how to transform list to table and evaluate an

Today's your lucky day (I think), because I was looking for (and used) the
aggregate function mentioned below just before reading your question.

At 11:03 AM 1/7/06, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>1) How to create a "table" in the form
>
> documtent_id | word_1 | word_2 | ... | word_n
> -------------------------------------------------
> 1345 | 11 | 12 | ... | 2
> 1202 | 1 | 0 | ... | 12
> . . . . .
> . . . . .
> 1129 | 20 | 1 | ... | 0
>
> from the query
>
> SELECT docId, word, score FROM Index WHERE word IN (word_1,..,word_n)

From section 31.10 of the 8.0 docs came this function...
CREATE AGGREGATE array_accum (
sfunc = array_append,
basetype = anyelement,
stype = anyarray,
initcond = '{}'
);

This query will return one row per docld. It's not exactly the format you
asked for, but perhaps it's a start ...

select docld,array_accum(word),array_accum(score) from index where word in
('apples','orange') group by docld;

Then your could write two functions (beyond my capabilities):
minarray( int[] ) so you could select minarray( array_accum(score) ) /*
apples AND orange */
maxarray( int[] ) so you could select maxarray( array_accum(score) ) /*
apples OR orange */

>2) How to evaluate the function derived from the 'search string' on this
> table, but this probably will work as an EXECUTE statement or
> something like that.

Not sure what you're asking here....