Summing parts of a column

@yaronkoral : Please find the solution below. You need to use another column from your table to sum up the results of a column of a particular row

dbadmin=> select * from test_f;
a | b
-----------------+---
40|30|20 | 1
70 | 2
100|20|1|1|1|10 | 3
(3 rows)

dbadmin=> select b, sum(a) from (SELECT b,v_txtindex.stringTokenizerDelim(a, '|') OVER(partition by b order by b) as a FROM test_f order by 1,2) g group by 1;
b | sum
---+-----
1 | 90
2 | 70
3 | 133
(3 rows)

dbadmin=>

Thank you @SruthiA, works perfectly!

@yaronkoral - Just for fun, here is another route via a User Defined SQL Function:

verticademos=> SELECT * FROM test_f;
        a
-----------------
 40|30|20
 70
 100|20|1|1|1|10
(3 rows)

verticademos=> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sumvalue (x VARCHAR) RETURN INT
verticademos-> AS
verticademos-> BEGIN
verticademos->   RETURN
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 1), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 1)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 2), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 2)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 3), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 3)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 4), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 4)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 5), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 5)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 6), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 6)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 7), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 7)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 8), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 8)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 9), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 9)) +
verticademos->     DECODE(split_part(x, '|', 10), '', '0', split_part(x, '|', 10));
verticademos-> END;
CREATE FUNCTION

verticademos=> SELECT a, sumvalue(a) sum FROM test_f;
        a        | sum
-----------------+-----
 40|30|20        |  90
 70              |  70
 100|20|1|1|1|10 | 133
(3 rows)

If you have to handle more that 10 values to sum, you'd have to add more SPLIT_PART calls

Or yet another two:
a) convert to array and explode:

-- need an identifier to link back to the row ...                                                                                                           
WITH
indata(id,lists) AS (
            SELECT 1, '40|30|20'
  UNION ALL SELECT 2, '100|20|1|1|1|10'
)
,
pivoted AS (
  SELECT
    EXPLODE(
      id
    , lists
    , STRING_TO_ARRAY(
        '['||REPLACE(lists,'|',',')||']'
      )
    ) OVER(PARTITION BEST)
    AS (id,lists,idx,summand)
  FROM indata
)
-- test query ...
-- SELECT * FROM pivoted;
-- out  id |      lists      | idx | summand 
-- out ----+-----------------+-----+---------
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   0 | 100
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   1 | 20
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   2 | 1
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   3 | 1
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   4 | 1
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   5 | 10
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |   0 | 40
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |   1 | 30
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |   2 | 20
SELECT
  id
, lists
, SUM(summand) As the_sum_per_row
FROM pivoted
GROUP BY 1,2;
-- out  id |      lists      | the_sum_per_row 
-- out ----+-----------------+-----------------
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |             133
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |              90

b) CROSS JOIN with an in-line index table ...

WITH                                                                                                                                                        
indata(id,lists) AS (
            SELECT 1, '40|30|20'
  UNION ALL SELECT 2, '100|20|1|1|1|10'
)
,
-- need an index of integers,here ...
i(i) AS (
            SELECT 0
  UNION ALL SELECT 1
  UNION ALL SELECT 2
  UNION ALL SELECT 3
  UNION ALL SELECT 4
  UNION ALL SELECT 5
  UNION ALL SELECT 6
)
,
pivoted AS (
  SELECT
    id
  , lists
  , i AS idx
  , SPLIT_PART(lists,'|',i+1)::INT AS summand
  FROM indata CROSS JOIN i
  WHERE SPLIT_PART(lists,'|',i+1) <>''
  ORDER BY id,idx
)
-- control query ...
-- SELECT * FROM pivoted;
-- out  id |      lists      | idx | summand 
-- out ----+-----------------+-----+---------
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |   0 |      40
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |   1 |      30
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |   2 |      20
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   0 |     100
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   1 |      20
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   2 |       1
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   3 |       1
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   4 |       1
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |   5 |      10
SELECT
  id
, lists
, SUM(summand) As the_sum_per_row
FROM pivoted
GROUP BY 1,2;
-- out  id |      lists      | the_sum_per_row 
-- out ----+-----------------+-----------------
-- out   1 | 40|30|20        |              90
-- out   2 | 100|20|1|1|1|10 |             133