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From: Dave Cramer <[email protected]>
To: Achilleas Mantzios - cloud <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Regarding useObjects
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 06:17:37 -0400
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On Wed, 27 Sept 2023 at 06:07, Achilleas Mantzios - cloud <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 9/27/23 12:55, Vladimir Sitnikov wrote:
>
> > So the problem with using float instead of Float is that it is
> impossible to have a null float and arrays can have nulls.
>
> There's a feature request for retrieving primitive arrays:
> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/issues/2939
>
> back in pre-postgresql-42* days we used to use -888 and -888.888 to
> represent int NULL and float NULL respectively, quite ...primitive but it
> worked. We should retain this old mapping , but once all systems are up to
> date we will start storing and reading NULLs in arrays as NULLs.
>
Using that mapping is not something that we would entertain.

If you are going to actually store NULL in the array, how would that work
with primitives ?

Dave

>
> Vladimir
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