On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> That would work too, although I think it might be a bit harder to use
> than one alternating-name-and-value array, at least in some scenarios.
> You'd have to be careful that you got the values in the same order in
> both arrays, which'd be easy to botch.
>
> There might be other use-cases where two separate arrays are easier
> to use, but I'm not seeing one offhand.
Stuff like this makes me wish PostgreSQL had an ordered pair data type. Then you'd just have a function with `variadic
orderedpair` as the signature.
I don't suppose anyone has implemented a data type like this…
Best,
David
