Re: string = any()

On 1/10/2012 10:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andy Colson<andy@squeakycode.net>  writes:
>> This still does not work, even in psql:
>> select 'bob' = any( '{''joe'', ''bob'' }'::varchar[] )
>
> You've got the array quoting rules wrong here (should be double quote
> marks, not single quotes).  You didn't show us your PHP code but I
> surmise that's got the same mistake.  Read the array I/O representation
> spec carefully:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS-IO
>
>             regards, tom lane

Wahoo!  Yep, that was it.

My confusion was from:

clayia=# select '{''joe'', ''bob'' }';
     ?column?
-----------------
  {'joe', 'bob' }
(1 row)

It does return an array of string, or so it looks.

Thank you Tom.

-Andy