Re: Problems with array - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Chad R. Larson
Subject Re: Problems with array
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Msg-id 4.2.2.20020823110706.00abc600@ecint.ecinet.com
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In response to Re: Problems with array  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 09:52 AM 8/23/02 , Tom Lane wrote:
>Yup, an array column is just an array column, there isn't any enforcement
>of a specific number of dimensions.  Putting extra []'s in the declaration
>is just syntactic sugar.

Just the same as in the C language.  Multi-dimensional arrays are just
special case pointer arithmetic on a single string of bytes.


         -crl
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