Re: "SELECT IN" Still Broken in 7.4b

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Stephan Szabo wrote:

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> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Rod Taylor wrote:
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> > > Thanks, Stephan.  I was really hoping that the IN(valuelist) was going to
> > > be changed at the same time, because it really is unusable for anything
> > > over a couple of thousand values.
> >
> > Changed to do what?
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> One possibility might be to act as if the valuelist was a table and do the
> IN as if it were that way, rather than treating it as a set of ORs.  That
> would be basically like doing the temporary table solution, but without
> requiring the user to do it.
>

for integers we use contrib/intarray as a workaround. In principle,
it's possible to extend intarray to general array.

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