On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Alex Magnum <magnum11200@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,I have a csv string in a text field that is unsorted and contains duplicates.Is there a simple way to remove these and sort the string.E.g2,18,20,23,1,27,1,2,8,16,17,18,20,22,23,27i tried string to array and unique but that did not work...Any suggestions on how to do this without writing a function?Any help is appreciated.
Are you looking for this.
postgres=# SELECT unnest(string_to_array(t, ',')) from test group by 1;
unnest
--------
2
18
8
20
22
16
27
17
23
1
(10 rows)
Regards,
Dinesh
ThanksA