Re: Querying a list of values

You might want to look at:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-comparisons.html

Sean

On Nov 18, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Aarni Ruuhimäki wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> Is there a / what is the way to query a list of values ?
>
> some_list = '1,2,3,4,5'
>
> some_list could also be null or any length.
>
> <cfif some_list IS NOT NULL>
>
> SELECT some_id, some_name
> FROM some_table
> WHERE some_id = any of the list values of some_list
>
> </cfif>
>
> So that that query would return five rows in this case ?
>
> I can do a cfml-loop around the query according to the list length for
> each
> value but that means a I do an x number of queries instead of just one.
>
> ??,
>
> Aarni
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