Re: How do I run a search on array

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Indraneel Majumdar wrote:

> select col1 from table while array_col[1][1:4]='2';
> 
> how do I do this sort of thing? There seems to be no docs ;-(
> 
> my array is {{"1","2","4","2"},{"3","2","5"},{"6","3","7","9"}}

You'll want to check out the array utilities in the contrib directory.
They include element is member of array and other such functions and
will probably do what you need.
> I would also like to know that if I have an array as a large object, is it
> possible to do a search on it using rows and columns (or by any other
> way)?
You're putting array style data into a large object with the lo_
functions?  Probably not in a meaningful way, no (although I'd guess that
toast might work for that kind of application when 7.1 comes out.)