PostgreSQL unnest() with element number

Question

When I have a column with separated values, I can use the unnest() function:

myTable
id | elements
---+------------
1  |ab,cd,efg,hi
2  |jk,lm,n         


        

Answer 1

If the order of element is not important, you can

select 
  id, elem, row_number() over (partition by id) as nr
from (
  select
      id,
      unnest(string_to_array(elements, ',')) AS elem
  from myTable
) a