Re: index ops for _int4 and trees?

Hello,

have a look at contrib/intarray directory!
There is a pretty good index-support for one-dimensional integer array - solution for your 1st question.
... and it also includes two simple operator @ (= 'contains' similiar to AND) and && ( = 'overlap' similiar to OR) to check array values against an other array.

There is a short README.intarray file telling you what to do.
There is another contrib in contrib/array for more support to check array values. But I don't know this contibution can profit from the other's index technique.

After you 've installed these contribs your query can be written:
> select * from test where lineage like '{1,2,3,%';
select * from test where lineage[1:3] @ '{1,2,3}';

I think these satisfy you.
Best,

Papp Gyozo
- pgerzson(at)freestart(dot)hu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lincoln Yeoh" <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
To: "PostgreSQL-General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: 2001. május 15. 10:20
Subject: [GENERAL] index ops for _int4 and trees?

> Hi,
>
> Say I have the following table:
>
> create table test (
> id int,
> lineage integer[]
> );
>
> insert into test (id,lineage) values ('8','{1,2,3}');
> insert into test (id,lineage) values ('9','{1,3,7}');
> insert into test (id,lineage) values ('10','{1,2,3}');
> insert into test (id,lineage) values ('11','{1,2,3,10}');
> insert into test (id,lineage) values ('12','{1,3,7,9}');
>
> 1) How do I create an index on integer[] aka _int4?
>
> 2) Is it possible to do something similar to the following select?
>
> select * from test where lineage like '{1,2,3,%';
>
> I'm basically using this as a method of fetching rows in a particular
> branch of a whole tree, without having to do recursion and multiple selects.
>
> If 1 or 2 are not possible then I'll stick with using text and converting
> ids to zeropadded hexadecimal <sigh>.
>
> I'm thinking that there should be a quick way to do branches and trees,
> after all there's a btree index type, so... ;).
>
> Using text works but is rather crude, any working suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Link.
>
>
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