Postgres Practice Lesson 3 of 12

Arrays: a column that holds a list

Tagging a blog post with three tags usually means a junction table: a post_tags table with one row per post-tag pairing. That's the right call when tags need their own metadata or you're querying them heavily - but for a short, simple list attached to a row, Postgres lets you skip the extra table entirely with a genuine array column type, TEXT[].

To check whether a specific value is one of the elements in an array column, use = ANY(column). It's not a text search on some comma-joined string - tags really is a list, and ANY checks list membership directly.

You have an articles table with columns id, title, and tags (a TEXT[]).

Your task: return the title of every article tagged 'sql'.

You'll practice:

Reading an array column
Checking array membership with value = ANY(column)

-- Return the title of every article tagged 'sql'.
SELECT title, tags FROM articles;