Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields
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Msg-id 41151F73.4030405@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields strange  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not sure that we had such an agreement, but in any case we've got
> to understand how to distinguish empty-string from NULL.
> 

I realized that in my followup post regarding nested arrays. In any 
case, since will not 8.0 support either NULL elements nor nested arrays, 
can we agree that '{{},{}}' and similar is not allowed? If someone 
really wants '{{""},{""}}', they will still be able to specify it in 
that precise way.

Joe


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