explode-array.md
Consider an orders table with the following contents:
=> SELECT orderkey, custkey, prodkey, orderprices, email_addrs
FROM orders LIMIT 5;
orderkey | custkey | prodkey | orderprices | email_addrs
------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
113-341987 | 342799 | ["MG-7190 ","VA-4028 ","EH-1247 ","MS-7018 "] | ["60.00","67.00","22.00","14.99"] | ["bob@example,com","robert.jones@example.com"]
111-952000 | 342845 | ["ID-2586 ","IC-9010 ","MH-2401 ","JC-1905 "] | ["22.00","35.00",null,"12.00"] | ["br92@cs.example.edu"]
111-345634 | 342536 | ["RS-0731 ","SJ-2021 "] | ["50.00",null] | [null]
113-965086 | 342176 | ["GW-1808 "] | ["108.00"] | ["joe.smith@example.com"]
111-335121 | 342321 | ["TF-3556 "] | ["50.00"] | ["789123@example-isp.com","alexjohnson@example.com","monica@eng.example.com","sara@johnson.example.name",null]
(5 rows)
The following query explodes the order prices for a single customer. The other two columns are passed through and are repeated for each returned row:
=> SELECT EXPLODE(orderprices, custkey, email_addrs
USING PARAMETERS skip_partitioning=true)
AS (position, orderprices, custkey, email_addrs)
FROM orders WHERE custkey='342845' ORDER BY orderprices;
position | orderprices | custkey | email_addrs
----------+-------------+---------+------------------------------
2 | | 342845 | ["br92@cs.example.edu",null]
3 | 12.00 | 342845 | ["br92@cs.example.edu",null]
0 | 22.00 | 342845 | ["br92@cs.example.edu",null]
1 | 35.00 | 342845 | ["br92@cs.example.edu",null]
(4 rows)
The previous example uses the skip_partitioning
parameter. Instead of setting it for each call to EXPLODE, you can set it as a session parameter. EXPLODE is part of the ComplexTypesLib UDx library. The following example returns the same results:
=> ALTER SESSION SET UDPARAMETER FOR ComplexTypesLib skip_partitioning=true;
=> SELECT EXPLODE(orderprices, custkey, email_addrs)
AS (position, orderprices, custkey, email_addrs)
FROM orders WHERE custkey='342845' ORDER BY orderprices;
You can explode more than one column by specifying the explode_count
parameter:
=> SELECT EXPLODE(orderkey, prodkey, orderprices
USING PARAMETERS explode_count=2, skip_partitioning=true)
AS (orderkey,pk_idx,pk_val,ord_idx,ord_val)
FROM orders
WHERE orderkey='113-341987';
orderkey | pk_idx | pk_val | ord_idx | ord_val
------------+--------+----------+---------+---------
113-341987 | 0 | MG-7190 | 0 | 60.00
113-341987 | 0 | MG-7190 | 1 | 67.00
113-341987 | 0 | MG-7190 | 2 | 22.00
113-341987 | 0 | MG-7190 | 3 | 14.99
113-341987 | 1 | VA-4028 | 0 | 60.00
113-341987 | 1 | VA-4028 | 1 | 67.00
113-341987 | 1 | VA-4028 | 2 | 22.00
113-341987 | 1 | VA-4028 | 3 | 14.99
113-341987 | 2 | EH-1247 | 0 | 60.00
113-341987 | 2 | EH-1247 | 1 | 67.00
113-341987 | 2 | EH-1247 | 2 | 22.00
113-341987 | 2 | EH-1247 | 3 | 14.99
113-341987 | 3 | MS-7018 | 0 | 60.00
113-341987 | 3 | MS-7018 | 1 | 67.00
113-341987 | 3 | MS-7018 | 2 | 22.00
113-341987 | 3 | MS-7018 | 3 | 14.99
(16 rows)