Re: ANY

From: Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Stefan Schwarzer <stefan(dot)schwarzer(at)grid(dot)unep(dot)ch>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ANY
Date: 2007-09-11 12:43:38
Message-ID: 46E68D7A.2050306@magproductions.nl
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl> writes:
>> Richard Huxton wrote:
>>> AFAIK there are two variants of ANY()
>>> 1. sets
>>> 2. arrays
>>>
>>> So you should be able to do:
>>> ... WHERE x = ANY( ARRAY[a, b, c] )
>
>> But then the documentation isn't entirely correct. It suggests that it
>> works similar to IN, but it doesn't.
>
> The subquery variants (section 9.19) do work the same. There is nothing
> on the other page (9.20) making such a comparison.

Oh right, there are 2 sections about those expressions... Never noticed
that there was "9.16. Subquery Expressions" and "9.17. Row and Array
Comparisons" listing the same expressions.

(Apparently there are 2 more sections before it in your documentation)

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