From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: array_lower /array_prepend doubt
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:10:38 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200402121510.i1CFAcq18481@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11796.1074712551@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> > We may need another extension to the array literal syntax in
> > order to deal with this. I'll report back after I've had some time to
> > study it.
>
> There already is support in array_in for specification of the array
> dimensions (though it may be suffering bit rot for lack of use/testing).
> I think the main thing needed is some thought about when array_out
> should print dimensions; we don't want it doing so all the time, for
> both clutter and backwards compatibility reasons. Maybe "whenever any
> lower bound is not 1" would do; or maybe we want to invent a GUC switch
> to control its behavior.
Is this a TODO?
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