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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Array function
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:08:01 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


FYI, this discussion about adding a separate array section to the docs
(which we already have, as Peter pointed out) is independent of the
ARRAY() documentation addition I just put in the patch queue.

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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:59:13PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 04:36:14PM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > > 
> > > Here's a little addition to the array functions & operators
> > > section of the manual.  It adds a function array() to the list.
> > > 
> > > Cheers, D
> >
> > BTW, it seems it would be useful to dedicate a chapter to array
> > handling, since it's something that's not very common amongst
> > databases.
> 
> I guess it depends what you mean. Oracle has "subtables," and other
> things have stuff like that.  Also, it's in the SQL standard...
> 
> Anyhow, where do you think it should go?
> 
> Cheers,
> D
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