Add string_to_table() function.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 2 Sep 2020 22:23:56 +0000 (18:23 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 2 Sep 2020 22:23:56 +0000 (18:23 -0400)
commit66f163068030b5c5fe792a0daee27822dac43791
tree7b2e9fc7a63c0280fe955e924fb594edc48347f2
parentfd5e3b291415e6cf55408af1282585c945464c8f
Add string_to_table() function.

This splits a string at occurrences of a delimiter.  It is exactly like
string_to_array() except for producing a set of values instead of an
array of values.  Thus, the relationship of these two functions is
the same as between regexp_split_to_table() and regexp_split_to_array().

Although the same results could be had from unnest(string_to_array()),
this is somewhat faster than that, and anyway it seems reasonable to
have it for symmetry with the regexp functions.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Peter Smith

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRD8HOpjq2TqeTBhSo_QkzjLOhXzGCpKJ4nCs7Y9SQkuPw@mail.gmail.com
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql