Re: beta time - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: beta time
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Msg-id 200408080528.i785SGH20336@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: beta time  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
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Joe Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> >>1. '{{"1 2" x},{3}}'
> >>2. '{{},{}}'
> > 
> >>My patch would generate an ERROR for either. Tom, you questioned my 
> >>disallowing of both of these, but didn't seem to have a very strong 
> >>opinion.
> > 
> > I don't have any great love for the first item --- I think it was an
> > unintended consequence of the way the code was first written, rather
> > than something the author meant to support.
> > 
> > I'm more concerned about what the second should mean, but I do have to
> > concede that we'd likely want to appropriate this syntax to mean NULL
> > array entries as soon as we support NULL array entries.  So rejecting it
> > at the moment may be a forward-looking thing to do.
> 
> I committed the attached.
> 
> Regarding the release notes, I take it that we should modify 
> doc/src/sgml/release.sgml? Does the following sound reasonable, or 

Right.

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