Converting an hstore into a key/value record

Started by Jon Smarkalmost 15 years ago1 messagesgeneral
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#1Jon Smark
jon.smark@yahoo.com

Hallo,

Suppose I have the following 'scores_t' record:

create type scores_t as (item text, score int);

What's the cleanest way of converting a hstore into a set of scores_t,
with each key mapping to field 'item', and the value to field 'score'?

As an example, consider the following (non-working) code:

create table people (id int4 unique not null, scores hstore);

create function get_scores (int4)
returns setof scores_t
language sql stable as
$$
select each (scores) from people where id = $1;
$$

Sure, I could cook up some PL/pgSQL to do this task, but I suspect
there must be some much simpler SQL statement that does the same...

Thanks in advance!
Jon