Re: How to split an array-column?

From: Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Venky Kandaswamy <venky(at)adchemy(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to split an array-column?
Date: 2013-03-18 20:43:33
Message-ID: 51477C75.8010108@gmx.net
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Thanks for the pointer.
It got me half way.

This is the solution:

select distinct id, unnest ( string_to_array ( trim ( array_column, ';'
), ';' ) ) from import;

Am 18.03.2013 20:24, schrieb Venky Kandaswamy:
> You can try
>
> select id, unnest(array_col) from table
>
> ....
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> Subject: [SQL] How to split an array-column?
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> Hi,
>
> I've got a table to import from csv that has an array-column like:
>
> import ( id, array_col, ... )
>
> Those arrays look like ( 42, ";4941;4931;4932", ... )
> They can have 0 or any number of elements separated by ;
>
> So I'd need a result like this:
> 42, 4941
> 42, 4931
> 42, 4932
>
> How would I get this?
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