Re: Postgres Array Traversing Problem

On 10/4/07, yogesh <yogesh(dot)arora(dot)daffodil(at)gmail(dot)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(at)postgresql(dot)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