| From: | Spirou <spirou(at)carolo(dot)net> | 
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| To: | pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | PgAccess and arrays | 
| Date: | 1999-08-11 05:23:23 | 
| Message-ID: | 37B108CB.842CC5C7@carolo.net | 
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It seems that pgAccess has as much trouble as I have with arrays ...
and perhaps more since I can't even run the queries below in it.
Does anyone have information on those damned arrays ?
Here is the text of a message I have posted on NOVICE
without success up to now.
********************************
I'd like to make some selections on values in arrays.
I know I could use a more 'SQL-correct' way to achieve this.
(create another table, link it to the first one and so on.)
But I was playing with arrays and I was wondering ... 
I give an exemple to make my question clear (I hope)
let's say I store some values in a 2 dim array :
        create table myfunction (
                id      int4,
                name    text,
                args    text[][]);
        insert into myfunction
        values( 1,
                'func1',
                '{{"key1", "value1"}, {"key2", "value2"}}');
 
        insert into myfunction
        values( 2,
                'func2',
                '{{"key1", "value1"}, {"key2", "value5"}, {"key3",
"value2"}}');
 
everything's OK.
I can store my values.
I can retrieve them :
        select args from myfunction where name = 'func1';
or
        select myfunction.args[1][2] where id = 2;
or even
        select myfunction.args[1:1][1:2] where id = 2;
with some trial & errors it works.
But I can't manage to look into myfunction.args,
I mean something like
        select name from myfunction 
        where myfunction.args [][2] = 'value2';
or
        select name from myfunction 
        where myfunction.args ~~ '%value2%';
if I don't know where is value2 in my array (if it exists).
 
Which operators can I use ?
How can I inspect an array-field ?
Any information on arrays would be welcome.
-- 
Spirou
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