Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays
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Msg-id 18147.1131562548@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> writes:
> If we're going non-computable, would something that's a superset
> of the SQL Standard's array value constructor be useful;

I think you've confused ARRAY[] expressions with the I/O representation
for array values.  There are many good reasons why those are not
identical, starting with the fact that string literals inside an ARRAY[]
would be subject to different escaping conventions than an I/O value is.
        regards, tom lane


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