X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6FE52A90 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:56:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06033-01 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 04:56:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAEC652AB4 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:56:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6N4uQtw018798; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:56:26 -0400 (EDT) To: Michael Fuhr Cc: Gnanavel S , Dongsoo Yoon , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Error when using array variable In-reply-to: <20050722233858.GA47991@winnie.fuhr.org> References: <000601c58e9f$1a3d0cc0$2d216b3d@notebook04> <20050722233858.GA47991@winnie.fuhr.org> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Fuhr message dated "Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:38:58 -0600" Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:56:26 -0400 Message-ID: <18797.1122094586@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.006 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200507/205 X-Sequence-Number: 22183 Michael Fuhr writes: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:07:04PM +0530, Gnanavel S wrote: >> You need to initialse the array, Otherwise any value added to the array will >> be null. > This isn't necessary in 8.0, which we can infer is being used because > of the dollar quotes. However, plpgsql wasn't fixed to follow that behavior till 8.0.2 or so. regards, tom lane