David Higgs wrote: > On 1/13/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This statement works: > > > => SELECT * FROM sal_emp WHERE 10000 = ANY (pay_by_quarter); > > > > > But this does not: > > > => SELECT * FROM sal_emp WHERE ANY (pay_by_quarter) = 10000; > > > ERROR: syntax error at or near "ANY" at character ... > > > > This is not a bug, it's the way the syntax works per SQL spec. > > ANY must immediately follow the operator it relates to. See > > <quantified comparison predicate> syntax in the spec. > > > > regards, tom lane > > > > Aha, I see it in the docs now, although it's still rather unintuitive. > Could the appropriate section on arrays be crosslinked to the ANY/ALL > page, to preempt this question in the future?
I researched this and found this line right above the example you quoted above: An alternative method is described in Section 9.17. The above query could be replaced by: SELECT * FROM sal_emp WHERE 10000 = ANY (pay_by_quarter); and section 9.17 is 9.17. Row and Array Comparisons. Not sure we can do any better than that. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly