Re: Arrays ... need clarification.... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Arrays ... need clarification....
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In response to Re: Arrays ... need clarification....  (Medi Montaseri <medi.montaseri@intransa.com>)
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Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Thank you very much Joe....related to Dr. Conway of the Perl
> community ?

Nah, nobody famous in my clan ;-)

> Also, currently as you noted, one has to fill the array sequentially,
> ie no random array access is allowed unless one has initialized it
> already. This appears to be a limitation of the underlying data
> structure. Perhaps you could allow for such random accesses.

It is, in that the current implementation cannot deal with NULL
elements. I don't think that will get fixed for 7.4, but perhaps in some
future release.

Joe


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