Hi, Suppose I have a table
CREATE TABLE sal_emp ( name text, pay_by_quarter integer[], ); Now I have a query - select * from sal_emp where pay_by_quarter && some_var Now some var some times is fully empty, then I am getting error as PG::UndefinedFunction: ERROR: operator does not exist: text[] && integer[] LINE 1: ...ps".* FROM "reporting_groups" WHERE (ARRAY[NULL] && workpla... ^ How to fix this ? The error is taken from production and the example I gave above is the same as per our current query in production. Regards, Arup Rakshit On Monday, 2 June 2014 9:04 PM, Steve Crawford <scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote: On 06/02/2014 03:54 AM, Arup Rakshit wrote: Hi, > > >Suppose, I have a table as below :- > > >id | title | content | tags >----+--------------+----------------+------------------- > 1 | sample post | lorem ipsum | {apple,orange} > 2 | another post | fruits are bad | {apple,hamburger} > 3 | third post | foo bar | { banana, lemon } > 4 | third post | foo baz | { watermelon, lemon } > > >Now I want to select all rows, for which tags will having either one or all >value from the this array [apple,banana] ? how should I write the query using >such a set ? > > >output should select 1,2,3. > >Regards, >Arup Rakshit Perhaps the && (overlaps) operator will work best for you. Check out the available operators at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-array.html Cheers, Steve