Hi, I think Bruce meant contrib/intarray which provides incredibly fast indexed access to arrays of integers, which is your case. We use it a lot, particularly in our full text search engine (OpenFTS).
regards, Oleg On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Steve Howe wrote: > > > I also quote the PotgreSQL user manual > > > > (http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/arrays.html): > > > > In the contrib/ directory are procedures to search arrays for values. > > This may help. > > > Thanks for the tip, but in fact I've seen them (and they're listed on the > same document I pointed on the original message). > These are sequential (slow) searches, and can't be indexed. in resume: > nothing but another crude hack :). I could even use it, but I can';t tell my > users "oh this feature works but you must compile this contrib code inyo > your servers". Many users can't do it, and many don't even know how to do it > :( > > Best Regards, > Steve Howe > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia) Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html