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Select rows from table where column value matches any item in array

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用户在 PostgreSQL 中需要根据一个字符串数组对文本列进行不区分大小写的匹配,但现有 SQL 语法(如 ANY)通常用于数组列而非字符串匹配。用户尝试避免逐项查询后去重,因为那样会导致多次数据库往返和重复数据处理,增加开发复杂度和执行时间。用户自己找到的解决方案(string_to_array 结合 && 操作符)虽然可行,但需要手动转换类型,且可能对性能有影响,说明缺乏简洁、高效的原生语法支持。这导致开发者在实现类似“关键词过滤”或“标签匹配”功能时,需要编写额外代码或依赖变通方案,增加了维护成本和出错风险。

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I would like to execute a case insensitive match on a column looking for any match for a given array of strings. Example: If a row contained values id, comment 1, 'This is my comment' And I was trying to match any term in the array ('statement','term','comment') I would love a query something like this SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE ( string_to_array(comment, ' ') ANY ('{term}') ); Now I understand the ANY function is meant to be applied to array columns but this is effectively what I would like to achieve. What I am trying to avoid is having to iterate through all of the terms and execute an individual query for each and then have to remove duplicates etc etc. EDIT: So I was able to find a solution which seems to work. Although I would still love more feedback to determine if this is a reasonable approach. SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE string_to_array(LOWER(column_name), ' ')::varchar[] && '{term1,term2,term3}'::varchar[];

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Here are the two ways to achieve this: Use ANY & ARRAY of terms SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1 id , 'This is my comment' comment1 UNION SELECT 2, 'Another statement') data WHERE comment1 ~~ ANY(ARRAY['%comment%', '%statement%']) SIMILAR TO SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1 id , 'This is my comment' comment1 UNION SELECT 2, 'Another statement') data WHERE comment1 SIMILAR TO '%(comment|statement)%'

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