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Julian Hyde commented on PHOENIX-953: ------------------------------------- I was wrong. I checked SQL-2011, and you can specify more than one argument to UNNEST, provided that they are all arrays. So you would not need to join the arrays on ordinal. 7-6 table reference, syntax rule 7e case 1: bq. If the declared type of any CVEj, 1 (one) ≤ j ≤ NCV, is a multiset, then NCV shall be 1 (one) and WITH ORDINALITY shall not be specified. > Support UNNEST for ARRAY > ------------------------ > > Key: PHOENIX-953 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-953 > Project: Phoenix > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: James Taylor > Assignee: Dumindu Buddhika > Fix For: 4.6 > > Attachments: PHOENIX-953-v1.patch, PHOENIX-953-v2.patch, > PHOENIX-953-v3.patch, PHOENIX-953-v4.patch > > > The UNNEST built-in function converts an array into a set of rows. This is > more than a built-in function, so should be considered an advanced project. > For an example, see the following Postgres documentation: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-array.html > http://www.anicehumble.com/2011/07/postgresql-unnest-function-do-many.html > http://tech.valgog.com/2010/05/merging-and-manipulating-arrays-in.html > So the UNNEST is a way of converting an array to a flattened "table" which > can then be filtered on, ordered, grouped, etc. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)