Re: Using PL/pgSQL text argument in 'IN (INT, INT, ...)' clause [re-post]

Hi,

You can do this:

UPDATE foo SET x = y WHERE id = ANY(string_to_array(blah, ',')::integer[]);

Note that you need to cast string_to_array(...) to array type of your id type.

On 25 October 2010 20:07, Axel Rau <Axel(dot)Rau(at)chaos1(dot)de> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I have a function argument blah of type text containing something like
>   33,44,55,66
> . Can I cast it in some way to use it in an IN clause as integers like
>   UPDATE foo SET x = y WHERE id IN ( blah );
> or need I revert to dynamic SQL (EXECUTE...) ?
>
> Thanks, Axel
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