From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200402121510.i1CFAcq18481@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: array_lower /array_prepend doubt
In-Reply-To: <11796.1074712551@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:10:38 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>,
	Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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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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