Hi,
I think this is most surprising behavior -- shouldn't the UPDATE raise
an error?
alvherre=# create table foo (a int[]);
CREATE TABLE
alvherre=# insert into foo values (null);
INSERT 33649 1
alvherre=# update foo set a[3] = '42';
UPDATE 1
alvherre=# select a, a is null from foo;a | ?column?
---+---------- | t
(1 fila)
alvherre=# select version(); version
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PostgreSQL
7.5develon i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)
(1 fila)
(This is CVS tip as of a couple weeks ago)
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