Re: Missing array support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Missing array support
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Msg-id 15531.1056773453@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Missing array support  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: Missing array support  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Re: Missing array support  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> So array[] should produce '{}' of (an array) type determined by the 
> context? OK -- seems easy enough.

Is it?  I think we'd decided that this could only reasonably be handled
by creating a datatype representing array-of-UNKNOWN.  I'm afraid to do
that because I think it might allow the parser's type resolution
algorithms to follow paths we will not like.  Perhaps it can be made to
work, but I think it will require some careful study.
        regards, tom lane


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