Re: NULL in arrays - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: NULL in arrays
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Msg-id 400707D4.9000204@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: NULL in arrays  (Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>)
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Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Joe Conway wrote:
>>Additionally, this behavior was discussed during the 7.4 development and
>>beta cycles on at least a couple occassions -- that would have been the
>>time to complain, not now.
>
> Well, I will complain whenever I see something I don't like :-)

No issue with that, I just like to encourage more, ahem, timely feedback
whenever possible ;-).

> In the documentation I got the impression that NULL values inside an array
> was not allowed. Now I know that you are allowed to form such an
> expression and that it evaluates to the NULL array. The documentation
> should be fixed then (or maybe it is documented buy i've not seen it).

I agree, and see Tom does too in a nearby post. Do you want to propose
some wording, or just leave it up to me?

Joe

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