Re: Overlap function for hstore?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stefan Keller <sfkeller(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Overlap function for hstore?
Date: 2015-04-04 01:16:14
Message-ID: CAKFQuwa+bR03goUEBrE0c-kkztnQPGkctf3W_f54Nb0bMSi7-Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get an overlap function similar to '&&' but for key-value
> pairs of hstore!
>
> This underfits:
>
> postgres=# select hstore_to_array('a=>1,b=>2,c=>3'::hstore) &&
> hstore_to_array('a=>2,d=>4,b=>2'::hstore)
>
> ...because array overlaps op takes every element (even 'a' or 2 alone)
> and doesn't test for key and value together like in 'b=>2'!
>
> Any clever ideas?
>

​Not tested!

SELECT hstore(array_agg(key), array_agg(value)) FROM (
SELECT each(...)
INTERSECT
SELECT each(...)​
) src

David J.

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