RE: SELECT and Arrays

The two ways that you describe of querying are not (necessarily)equivalent,
though.

From the first example you give, I assume that you are trying to find all
rows where each element in the array is above a certain threshold. However,
in the second query, what does [x:x] > [y:y] mean? Are all elements in the
target supposed to be less than the threshold, or just any of them, or
perhaps the mod (distance of the point from the origin) of the first is
greater than the mod of the second?
Which is why there is no > operator in more than one dimension. It's a bit
like saying: is (23,5) less than (45,2), using points from 2-space (x-y
co-ordinates).

However, you could write an operator specifically for your case (all values
on one side less than all values on the other). It's not difficult, if you
feel like getting into the array package in contrib/ and/or don't mind doing
some coding ;-), and the contrib/ code would probably provide some code
closely matching what you want.

Cheers...

MikeA

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Stinson
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: 13/03/01 23:08
Subject: [GENERAL] SELECT and Arrays

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Hi all -
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Trying to utilize an array within a table, and to SELECT it using the
format [x:y]=something, but cant get it to work...
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Here is what I'm currently doing (the dumb way):
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SELECT * FROM students WHERE testscore[1]>70 AND testscore[2]>70;
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Here is what I'd like to do (the less dumb way;) ):
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SELECT * FROM students WHERE testscore[1:2]>'{70,70}';
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However, PG keeps complaining about not finding an operator for types
'_int4' and 'unknown'.
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Anyone have any pointers??
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Thanks,
Barry S

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