Markus Bertheau ☭ wrote:
> В Пнд, 06/06/2005 в 10:44 -0400, Tom Lane пишет:
>>Markus Bertheau ☭ <twanger@bluetwanger.de> writes:
>>
>>>By analogy, array_upper('{}'::TEXT[], 1) should return 0 instead of
>>>NULL.
>>
>>No, that doesn't follow ... we've traditionally considered '{}' to
>>denote a zero-dimensional array.
>
> But array_upper(ARRAY(SELECT 1 WHERE FALSE), 1) should return 0,
> and array_upper(ARRAY[], 1), when the ARRAY[] syntax is supported,
> should return 0.
>
Actually, consistent with my last post, I think array_upper() on a
zero-element array should return NULL. A zero-element array has a
defined lower bound, but its upper bound is not zero -- it is really
undefined.
Joe
