Re: Curiosity with catalog table array attribute index dimensions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Jones
Subject Re: Curiosity with catalog table array attribute index dimensions
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Msg-id 0C0FE45A-BBE8-4D81-A4C5-A0E896E323DB@myemma.com
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In response to Re: Curiosity with catalog table array attribute index dimensions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> writes:
>> So, I noticed today that pg_index.indkey index values start at 0
>> instead of 1 as I'd expected.  Are there other cases of this?
>> Shouldn't that be documented somewhere?
>
> Well, the CREATE TYPE manual page has
>
>    For historical reasons (i.e., this is clearly wrong but it's far
> too
>    late to change it), subscripting of fixed-length array types
> starts from
>    zero, rather than from one as for variable-length arrays.
>
> oidvector and int2vector aren't fixed-length anymore, but they
> maintain
> their old behavior in this respect for backward compatibility.

Ah, thanks, at least now I know what to look for instead of using
trial and error.

Erik Jones

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