Re: Catalogs design question

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Steve Howe wrote:

> Hello all!!
>
>
> I'm developer of a interface for PostgreSQL for the Borland Kylix
> and Delphi tools (http://www.vitavoom.com). I've run into the following
> problems with catalogs:
>
> - pg_group: the grolist field is an array. How can I make a query
> that tell me the usernames of a group ?
> - pg_proc: the proargtypes field is an array. How can I make a query
> that will link those types to the pg_types catalog ???
>
> This catalog design seems a very crude hack to make the things
> working for me. Can't those relations be separated in another table ? Or
> maybe a function that can search for a value in array, and make a wroking
> reference for an array
> element in a relation (something like "select typname from pg_type, pg_group
> where oid
> in grolist").
> I also quote the PotgreSQL user manual
> (http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/arrays.html):

In the contrib/ directory are procedures to search arrays for values.
This may help.

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