Re: How to use hstore

Hi Sergey

Thats exacly what i was looking for, thanks a million !

Best regards
Jan Eskilsson

2012/6/5 Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Jan Eskilsson <janeskil1525(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> My problem is that i would like to be able to retrieve a group of
>> records from the hstore table and present them in a grid so I would
>> like to convert the hstore records back to the original table format.
>> In the manual i found an example how to convert to a predefined record
>> type, exactly what i like to do but the example works great as long as
>> there is only one record to convert.
>
> I think this will answer your question:
>
> grayhemp=# \d t
>       Table "public.t"
>  Column |  Type   | Modifiers
> --------+---------+-----------
>  i      | integer |
>  t      | text    |
>  h      | hstore  |
>
> grayhemp=# select * from t;
>  i |  t  |         h
> ---+-----+--------------------
>  1 | aaa |
>  2 | bbb | "a"=>"1", "b"=>"2"
>  3 | ccc | "a"=>"1", "c"=>"3"
> (3 rows)
>
> grayhemp=# \d r
>       Table "public.r"
>  Column |  Type   | Modifiers
> --------+---------+-----------
>  a      | integer |
>  b      | integer |
>  c      | integer |
>
> grayhemp=# select (populate_record(null::r, h)).* from t;
>  a | b | c
> ---+---+---
>   |   |
>  1 | 2 |
>  1 |   | 3
> (3 rows)
>
>>
>> SELECT * FROM populate_record(null::test,
>>                              '"col1"=>"456", "col2"=>"zzz"');.
>>
>> But i like to to something like this
>> SELECT * FROM populate_record(null::test,
>>                              (select logfield from logtable where
>> '"col1"=>"456" ));
>>
>>
>> So i wonder how should i do if i have lots of hstore records to
>> convert ? My SQl knowledge is a bit short :-)
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>>
>> Jan Eskilsson
>>
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