Thanks for the pointer.
It got me half way.
This is the solution:
select distinct id, unnest ( string_to_array ( trim ( array_column, ';'
), ';' ) ) from import;
Am 18.03.2013 20:24, schrieb Venky Kandaswamy:
> You can try
>
> select id, unnest(array_col) from table
>
> ....
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> Subject: [SQL] How to split an array-column?
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> Hi,
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> I've got a table to import from csv that has an array-column like:
>
> import ( id, array_col, ... )
>
> Those arrays look like ( 42, ";4941;4931;4932", ... )
> They can have 0 or any number of elements separated by ;
>
> So I'd need a result like this:
> 42, 4941
> 42, 4931
> 42, 4932
>
> How would I get this?
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