Re: postgres functions

The easiest way that I can think of is using plpython (although for those so
inclined, I imagine plperl might do the job about as easily):

create function nelem(text) returns int as '
return len(args[0].split('',''))
' language 'plpython';

That should work very quickly compared with any loop or recursion. The first
call might take a moment to load the python interpreter, but after that if
should be fine.

Regards,
    Jeff

On Thursday 12 September 2002 01:50 pm, Douglas Blood wrote:
> I have a field in my database that is comma deliminated values. I know that
> I can count up how many values are there using java but i was wondering if
> there was a way using postgres functions or just standard sql. I was
> thinking a recursive function with substrings and finding the next location
> of the comma but I don't know if it will work or if it does the effect on
> the database. Any help would be great.
>
>
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