Re: Querying a list of values

From: Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni(at)kymi(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Querying a list of values
Date: 2004-11-18 13:22:58
Message-ID: 200411181522.58239.aarni@kymi.com
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That was quick !

Thanks,

Aarni

On Thursday 18 November 2004 14:38, 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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