Re: Possible marginally-incompatible change to array subscripting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Possible marginally-incompatible change to array subscripting
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Msg-id 26835.1450807303@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Possible marginally-incompatible change to array subscripting  (Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru>)
Responses Re: Possible marginally-incompatible change to array subscripting  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru> writes:
> If you break backwards compatibility, it can be done arrays 
> similar to C/C++/Python/Ruby and other languages style?
> I'm sorry to bring up this thread again...

I am not sure just exactly how incompatible that would be, but surely it
would break enormously more code than what we're discussing here.
So no, I don't think any such proposal has a chance.  There are degrees
of incompatibility, and considering a small/narrow one does not mean that
we'd also consider major breakage.
        regards, tom lane



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