On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 6:45 PM Vladimir Ryabtsev <greatvovan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The fundamental issue is that "ANY" has two meanings in PG, one of them following the SQL standard and one not:Oh yes, I was aware about two forms but it did not come into my mind, I was thinking I use the same form in both cases since my query returns only one row and column.Thanks for pointing me into that.--Vlad
For what it is worth, I have found that if I am checking for the presence of an object in an array, while this syntax is easy to understand and more intuitive to craft:
select
*
from
mytable
where
' test' = ANY (my_varchar_array_column)
;
This syntax is almost always much faster:
select
*
from
mytable
where
ARRAY['test'::varchar] <@ my_varchar_array_column
;
(Since this is a performance list after all.)