Re: Arrays and ANY problem

> On 25 Sep 2019, at 22:50, Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On 25 Sep 2019, at 22:25, David Salisbury <dsalis(at)ucar(dot)edu> wrote:
>> db=# select name from table_name_ds_tmp where ARRAY[categoryid] = ANY ( select string_to_array( '200,400', ',')::bigint[] );
>> name
>> ------
>> (0 rows)
>
> You are comparing two arrays for equality. Since the left-hand array has only 1 item and the right-hand one has two, there’s not much equality between them.
>
> You probably meant:
> select name from table_name_ds_tmp where categoryid = ANY ( select string_to_array( '200,400', ',')::bigint[] );

Or rather:
select name from table_name_ds_tmp where categoryid = ANY ( string_to_array( '200,400', ',')::bigint[] );

Alban Hertroys
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